Salmagundi Club
Encyclopedia
The Salmagundi Club, also known as the Salmagundi Art Club, was founded in 1871 in Greenwich Village
, Manhattan
, New York City
, New York
, in the United States
. It currently is located at 47 Fifth Avenue
. As of 2009, the Salmagundi Club has over eight hundred members.
For nearly 140 years, the Salmagundi Club has served as a center for fine art
s and artist
s, conducting art exhibition
s, art classes, demonstrations, and art auctions
, and hosting many other events. It is also a sponsor of the United States Coast Guard
Art Program (COGAP).
in sculptor Jonathan Scott Hartley
's Broadway
studio, where a group of artists, students, and friends at the National Academy of Design
, which at the time was located at Fourth Avenue
and Twenty-third Street
, gathered weekly on Saturday evenings.
The club formally changed its name to The Salmagundi Sketch Club in January 1877. The name has variously been attributed to salmagundi
, a stew which the group has served from its earliest years, or to Washington Irving's
Salmagundi Papers.
Growing rapidly, and housed in many temporary locations, the club was at 14 West Twelfth Street for some years. In 1917, the club purchased the 1852 Irad Hawley brownstone townhouse at 47 Fifth Avenue
between East Eleventh and East Twelfth Streets, constructing a large two-story addition in the backyard to house its main art galleries and billiard room. The building was designated
a historical landmark
by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission
in 1969. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places
in 1975.
, Ralph Blakelock
, James Wells Champney
, William Merritt Chase
, Frederick Stuart Church
, Charles Dana Gibson
, William Hart
, Childe Hassam
, George Inness, Jr.
, John LaFarge
, Ernest Lawson
, Frank Mason, Samizu Matsuki
, John Francis Murphy
, Howard Pyle
, Will J. Quinlan
, Harry Roseland
, Augustus Saint-Gaudens
, Barbara Stadtlander
, Louis Comfort Tiffany
, Edward Charles Volkert
, Jack Wemp
, Stanford White
, Richard C. Pionk, and N.C. Wyeth.
Honorary members have included Paul Cadmus
, Schuyler Chapin
, Winston Churchill
, Buckminister Fuller, Al Hirschfeld
, and Thomas Hoving
.
Greenwich Village
Greenwich Village, , , , .in New York often simply called "the Village", is a largely residential neighborhood on the west side of Lower Manhattan in New York City. A large majority of the district is home to upper middle class families...
, Manhattan
Manhattan
Manhattan is the oldest and the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on the island of Manhattan at the mouth of the Hudson River, the boundaries of the borough are identical to those of New York County, an original county of the state of New York...
, New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
, New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
, in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. It currently is located at 47 Fifth Avenue
Fifth Avenue (Manhattan)
Fifth Avenue is a major thoroughfare in the center of the borough of Manhattan in New York City, New York, United States. The section of Fifth Avenue that crosses Midtown Manhattan, especially that between 49th Street and 60th Street, is lined with prestigious shops and is consistently ranked among...
. As of 2009, the Salmagundi Club has over eight hundred members.
For nearly 140 years, the Salmagundi Club has served as a center for fine art
Fine art
Fine art or the fine arts encompass art forms developed primarily for aesthetics and/or concept rather than practical application. Art is often a synonym for fine art, as employed in the term "art gallery"....
s and artist
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
s, conducting art exhibition
Art exhibition
Art exhibitions are traditionally the space in which art objects meet an audience. The exhibit is universally understood to be for some temporary period unless, as is rarely true, it is stated to be a "permanent exhibition". In American English, they may be called "exhibit", "exposition" or...
s, art classes, demonstrations, and art auctions
Art sale
An art auction is the sale of art works, in most cases in an auction house.In England this dates from the latter part of the 17th century, when in most cases the names of the auctioneers were suppressed...
, and hosting many other events. It is also a sponsor of the United States Coast Guard
United States Coast Guard
The United States Coast Guard is a branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven U.S. uniformed services. The Coast Guard is a maritime, military, multi-mission service unique among the military branches for having a maritime law enforcement mission and a federal regulatory agency...
Art Program (COGAP).
History
Originally called the New York Sketch Class, and later, called the New York Sketch Club, the Salmagundi Club had its beginnings at the eastern edge of Greenwich VillageGreenwich Village
Greenwich Village, , , , .in New York often simply called "the Village", is a largely residential neighborhood on the west side of Lower Manhattan in New York City. A large majority of the district is home to upper middle class families...
in sculptor Jonathan Scott Hartley
Jonathan Scott Hartley
Jonathan Scott Hartley , American sculptor, was born at Albany, New York.-Biography:He was a pupil of E.D. Palmer, New York, and of the schools of the Royal Academy, London; he later studied for a year in Berlin and for a year in Paris. His first important work was a statue of Miles Morgan, the...
's Broadway
Broadway (New York City)
Broadway is a prominent avenue in New York City, United States, which runs through the full length of the borough of Manhattan and continues northward through the Bronx borough before terminating in Westchester County, New York. It is the oldest north–south main thoroughfare in the city, dating to...
studio, where a group of artists, students, and friends at the National Academy of Design
National Academy of Design
The National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts, founded in New York City as the National Academy of Design – known simply as the "National Academy" – is an honorary association of American artists founded in 1825 by Samuel F. B. Morse, Asher B. Durand, Thomas Cole, Martin E...
, which at the time was located at Fourth Avenue
Park Avenue (Manhattan)
Park Avenue is a wide boulevard that carries north and southbound traffic in New York City borough of Manhattan. Through most of its length, it runs parallel to Madison Avenue to the west and Lexington Avenue to the east....
and Twenty-third Street
23rd Street (Manhattan)
23rd Street is a broad thoroughfare in the New York City borough of Manhattan. It is one of few two-way streets in the gridiron of the borough. As with Manhattan's other "crosstown" streets, it is divided at Fifth Avenue, in this case at Madison Square Park, into its east and west sections. Since...
, gathered weekly on Saturday evenings.
The club formally changed its name to The Salmagundi Sketch Club in January 1877. The name has variously been attributed to salmagundi
Salmagundi
Salmagundi is a salad dish, originating in the early 17th century in England, comprising cooked meats, seafood, vegetables, fruit, leaves, nuts and flowers and dressed with oil, vinegar and spices. There is some debate over the meaning and origin of the word...
, a stew which the group has served from its earliest years, or to Washington Irving's
Washington Irving
Washington Irving was an American author, essayist, biographer and historian of the early 19th century. He was best known for his short stories "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle", both of which appear in his book The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. His historical works...
Salmagundi Papers.
Growing rapidly, and housed in many temporary locations, the club was at 14 West Twelfth Street for some years. In 1917, the club purchased the 1852 Irad Hawley brownstone townhouse at 47 Fifth Avenue
Fifth Avenue (Manhattan)
Fifth Avenue is a major thoroughfare in the center of the borough of Manhattan in New York City, New York, United States. The section of Fifth Avenue that crosses Midtown Manhattan, especially that between 49th Street and 60th Street, is lined with prestigious shops and is consistently ranked among...
between East Eleventh and East Twelfth Streets, constructing a large two-story addition in the backyard to house its main art galleries and billiard room. The building was designated
Historic preservation
Historic preservation is an endeavor that seeks to preserve, conserve and protect buildings, objects, landscapes or other artifacts of historical significance...
a historical landmark
Landmark
This is a list of landmarks around the world.Landmarks may be split into two categories - natural phenomena and man-made features, like buildings, bridges, statues, public squares and so forth...
by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission
New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission
The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission is the New York City agency charged with administering the city's Landmarks Preservation Law. The Commission was created in April 1965 by Mayor Robert F. Wagner following the destruction of Pennsylvania Station the previous year to make way for...
in 1969. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...
in 1975.
Members
Members of the Salmagundi Club have included Thomas P. BarnettThomas P. Barnett
Thomas P. Barnett , also known professionally as Tom Barnett and Tom P. Barnett, was an American architect and painter from St. Louis, Missouri. Barnett was nationally recognized for both his work in architecture and in painting.-Architectural work:Barnett trained under his father, St. Louis...
, Ralph Blakelock
Ralph Albert Blakelock
Ralph Albert Blakelock was a romanticist painter from the United States.-Biography:Ralph Blakelock was born in New York City on October 15, 1847. His father was a successful physician. Blakelock initially set out to follow in his footsteps, and in 1864 began studies at the Free Academy of the...
, James Wells Champney
James Wells Champney
James Wells Champney was an American genre and portrait painter.He was born in Boston and first studied wood engraving there, then went to Europe and studied at the Antwerp Academy and under Edouard Frère in Paris...
, William Merritt Chase
William Merritt Chase
William Merritt Chase was an American painter known as an exponent of Impressionism and as a teacher. He is also responsible for establishing the Chase School, which later would become Parsons The New School for Design.- Early life and training :He was born in Williamsburg , Indiana, to the family...
, Frederick Stuart Church
Frederick Stuart Church
Frederick Stuart Church was an American artist, working mainly as an illustrator and especially known for his depiction of animals.-Biography:...
, Charles Dana Gibson
Charles Dana Gibson
Charles Dana Gibson was an American graphic artist, best known for his creation of the Gibson Girl, an iconic representation of the beautiful and independent American woman at the turn of the 20th century....
, William Hart
William Hart (painter)
William Hart , was a Scottish-born American landscape and cattle painter, and Hudson River School artist. His younger brother, James McDougal Hart, was also a Hudson River School artist, and the two painted similar subjects...
, Childe Hassam
Childe Hassam
Frederick Childe Hassam was a prolific American Impressionist painter, noted for his urban and coastal scenes. Along with Mary Cassatt and John Henry Twachtman, Hassam was instrumental in promulgating Impressionism to American collectors, dealers, and museums...
, George Inness, Jr.
George Inness, Jr.
George Inness, Jr. January 5, 1854 - July 27, 1926 was one of America’s foremost figure and landscape artists and the son of George Inness, an important American landscape painter....
, John LaFarge
John LaFarge
John La Farge was an American painter, muralist, stained glass window maker, decorator, and writer.-Biography:...
, Ernest Lawson
Ernest Lawson
Ernest Lawson was a Canadian-American painter and a member of The Eight, a group of artists which included the group's leaders Robert Henri, Everett Shinn, John Sloan, Arthur B. Davies, Maurice Prendergast, George Luks, and William J. Glackens...
, Frank Mason, Samizu Matsuki
Samizu Matsuki
Samizu Matsuki is a Japanese artist and educator who currently lives in Rockland, Maine, USA.She won the Gold Medal at the 1970 First New York International Art Show, the Grand Prix at the 1971 Locust Valley Art Show on Long Island, New York, and the Award of Excellence at the Abraham &...
, John Francis Murphy
John Francis Murphy
John Francis Murphy , American landscape painter.-Biography:He was born at Oswego, New York and first exhibited at the National Academy of Design in 1876, and was made an associate in 1885 and a full academician two years later. He became a member of the Society of American Artists and of the...
, Howard Pyle
Howard Pyle
Howard Pyle was an American illustrator and author, primarily of books for young people. A native of Wilmington, Delaware, he spent the last year of his life in Florence, Italy.__FORCETOC__...
, Will J. Quinlan
Will J. Quinlan
Will J. Quinlan , artist, was born in Brooklyn on June 27, 1877. He lost his hearing as a child. He had an early interest in art and attended the Academy of Design, Pratt Institute and Adelphi Academy in Brooklyn. He was an accomplished etcher, primarily of architectural city scenes, and also...
, Harry Roseland
Harry Roseland
Harry Herman Roseland was one of the most notable painters of the genre painting school around the turn of the 20th century. An American, Roseland was primarily known for paintings centered on poor African-Americans....
, Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Augustus Saint-Gaudens was the Irish-born American sculptor of the Beaux-Arts generation who most embodied the ideals of the "American Renaissance"...
, Barbara Stadtlander
Barbara Stadtlander
Barbara A. Stadtlander was an American painter based in Loudonville, Ohio, USA known for her trompe-l'œil work.Stadtlander was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1928 and was the oldest of four children...
, Louis Comfort Tiffany
Louis Comfort Tiffany
Louis Comfort Tiffany was an American artist and designer who worked in the decorative arts and is best known for his work in stained glass. He is the American artist most associated with the Art Nouveau and Aesthetic movements...
, Edward Charles Volkert
Edward Charles Volkert
Edward Charles Volkert , was an American Impressionist artist best known for his colorful and richly painted impressionist landscapes. His trademark subject was that of cattle and plowmen. He has been referred to as America's cattle painter extraordinaire".The son of a hat merchant from Alsace,...
, Jack Wemp
Jack Wemp
Jack Richard Wemp was an American artist who's painting styles spanned depression era, expressionism, 60’s contemporary art styles and for the last 30 years of his life, realism reminiscent of the Hudson River school.-Early days:Born in Seattle, Washington in 1925...
, Stanford White
Stanford White
Stanford White was an American architect and partner in the architectural firm of McKim, Mead & White, the frontrunner among Beaux-Arts firms. He designed a long series of houses for the rich and the very rich, and various public, institutional, and religious buildings, some of which can be found...
, Richard C. Pionk, and N.C. Wyeth.
Honorary members have included Paul Cadmus
Paul Cadmus
Paul Cadmus was an American artist. He is best known for his paintings and drawings of nude male figures. His works combined elements of eroticism and social critique to produce a style often called magic realism...
, Schuyler Chapin
Schuyler Chapin
Schuyler Garrison Chapin was an Assistant General Manager of the Metropolitan Opera and Commissioner of Cultural Affairs for New York City during the administration of Mayor Rudolph Giuliani...
, Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, was a predominantly Conservative British politician and statesman known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the century and served as Prime Minister twice...
, Buckminister Fuller, Al Hirschfeld
Al Hirschfeld
Albert "Al" Hirschfeld was an American caricaturist best known for his simple black and white portraits of celebrities and Broadway stars.-Personal life:Born in St...
, and Thomas Hoving
Thomas Hoving
Thomas Pearsall Field Hoving was an American museum executive and consultant and the former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.-Biography:...
.
Club presidents
- Joseph Hartley 1871-1889
- George W. Maynard 1888-1889
- Charles Yardley TurnerCharles Yardley TurnerCharles Yardley Turner was an American artist and muralist.Born in Baltimore, Turner studied art in Europe under French masters Jean-Paul Laurens, Mihály Munkácsy and Léon Bonnat...
1889-1883 - Thomas MoranThomas MoranThomas Moran from Bolton, England was an American painter and printmaker of the Hudson River School in New York whose work often featured the Rocky Mountains. Moran and his family took residence in New York where he obtained work as an artist...
1893-1896 - W. Lewis Fraser 1896-1897
- Alexander Theobald Van Laer 1897-1898
- Robert C. Minor 1898-1899
- Alexander Theobald Van Laer 1899-1900
- George H. McCord 1900-1901
- George Inness, Jr. 1901-1903
- J. Scott Hartley 1903-1905
- Alexander T. Van Laer 1905-1908
- Henry B. Snell 1908-1910
- Frank Knox Morton RehnFrank Knox Morton RehnFrank Knox Morton Rehn was a marine painter and president of Salmagundi Club.-Biography:He was born in Philadelphia, and he attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where he studied under Christian Schussele. For several years, he then painted portraits in Philadelphia...
1910-1911 - Carleton Wiggins 1911-1913
- Charles Vezin 1913-1914
- F. Ballard Williams 1914-1919
- Emil Carlsen 1919-1920
- J. Massey Rhind 1920-1922
- Hobart Nichols 1922-1924
- W. Granville Smith 1924-1926
- Franklin De Haven 1926-1929
- Bruce CraneBruce CraneRobert Bruce Crane was an American painter. He joined the Lyme Art Colony in the early 1900s. His most active period, though, came after 1920, when for more than a decade he did oil sketches of woods, meadows, and hills. He developed into a Tonalist painter under the influence of Jean Charles...
1929-1933 - Louis BettsLouis Betts-Biography:Betts was born in Little Rock, Arkansas. His father was an artist who remarried after Louis' mother died. His family moved to Chicago where his three younger siblings were born. Betts was able to continue his study of art as did his siblings. Betts made a good living from stock...
1933-1935 - George Elmer Brown 1935-1937
- Frederick W. Hutchinson 1937-1939
- Gordon Grant 1939-1941
- George Lober 1941-1944
- Frederick K. Detwiller 1944-1946
- Henry O' Connor 1946-1947
- Silvio B. Valerio 1947-1949
- Percy Albee 1949-1953
- Russell Rypsam 1953-1955
- Henry Laussucq 1955-1957
- Junius Allen 1957-1959
- A. Henry Nordhausen 1959-1963
- Francis Vandeveer Kughler 1963-1966
- Martin Hannon 1966-1970
- John N. Lewis 1970-1976
- Martin Hannon 1976-1977
- Raymond R. Goldberg 1977-1979
- Richard Clive 1979-1981
- Carl L. Thomson 1981-1983
- Ruth B. Reininghaus 1983-1987
- Edward A. Brennan 1987-1990
- Kenneth W. Fitch 1990-1991
- Robert Volpe 1991-1994
- Richard C. Pionk 1994- 2007
- Claudia Seymour 2007-present