1. History

2. References

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

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,^[2] 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.^[3] The club's first woman president was Mabel May Woodward.

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]

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