Providence Art Club

Fleur-de-Lys Studios, also known as Fleur-de-Lis Studios or Sydney Burleigh Studio, is home to the Providence Art Club

The Providence Art Club is an art club founded in 1880, and located on Thomas Street in Providence, Rhode Island. The club has studios, galleries and a clubhouse in a "picturesque procession of historic houses," which are across the street from the First Baptist Church in America.[1] One of those buildings is the Fleur-de-lys Studios.

History

Early Providence Art Club members, circa 1890. Sydney Burleigh sits at right.

The Providence Art Club was founded on February 19, 1880.[2] It is the third oldest continually operating art club in America, after the Philadelphia Sketch Club and New York's Salmagundi Club.[2] It was the first art club in the United States to admit women as members.[2]

It was founded by several Providence artists including Edward Mitchell Bannister, Charles Walter Stetson, Sydney Burleigh, George William Whitaker,[3] and Rosa Peckham.[2] Six of its first sixteen members were women.[2]

The first president of the Art Club was the locally prominent portrait artist James Sullivan Lincoln.[4] The club's first woman president was Mabel May Woodward.[5]

Not much is known about founding member Rosa Peckham; she studied with William Rimmer in New York and Jules Joseph Lefebvre in Paris.[2] She was among the first 30 American women to have her artwork exhibited at the Paris Salon.[2] She served as vice president of the Art Club in 1883 after turning down the position of president.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "About Us". Providence Art Club.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Ratcliffe, Christopher (11 March 2017). "Christopher Ratcliffe: The art of women's equality". The Providence Journal. Archived from the original on 12 March 2017. Retrieved 12 March 2017.
  3. ↑ "Inductee Details: George William Whitaker". Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame. Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
  4. ↑ "Lincoln, James Sullivan, 1811-1888". Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
  5. ↑ "Mabel May Woodward (1877-1945)". Invaluable.com: The world’s premier auctions. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
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