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The New England Art Union (c. 1848 – 1852) was established in Boston, Massachusetts, for "the encouragement of artists, the promotion of art" in New England and the wider United States.[1] Edward Everett, Franklin Dexter, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow served as officers of the board. The short-lived but lively union ran a public gallery on Tremont Street, and published a journal. Artists affiliated with the union included Chester Harding, Fitz Henry Lane, Alvan Fisher, and other American artists of the mid-19th century. {{TOC right}}HistoryThe union was organized around 1848, and incorporated in Massachusetts in 1850. The board included Everett, Dexter, and Longfellow, and a mix of prominent Bostonian businessmen, artists, and other notables: Joseph Andrews; Thomas G. Appleton; Edward C. Cabot; Alvan Fisher; Nathaniel Langdon Frothingham; James B. Gregerson; Chester Harding; Joshua H. Hayward; George S. Hilliard; Albert G. Hoit; Jonathan Mason; Benjamin S. Rotch; G. G. Smith; Charles Sumner; C. G. Thompson; and Ammi B. Young.[2][3] Others associated with union administration included James Lawrence and Thomas T. Spear.[3] The union aimed to promote excellence in art, to single out top performing American artists, and to educate the public eye. To this end, the board thought to increase the breadth of distributed art in circulation amongst the American public by producing fine art prints. In particular, in 1851 the union offered to its subscribers a copy of an engraving by C.E. Wagstaff and Joseph Andrews of Washington Allston's painting "Saul and the Witch of Endor."[4] The original painting (owned by Thomas Handasyd Perkins) was also exhibited in the union's gallery.[5] The board considered their purpose as part of a national effort to raise the quality of American visual art, ideally on par with the greats of Europe and the ancient world. "In empires and monarchies every protection is afforded to institutions of arts. Regarded as the harbingers of refinement, and the heralds of prosperity, they diffuse a radiance around thrones, and a lustre on the rulers that cherish them. In our republican land, genius cannot receive this munificent patronage, but, by the establishment of art unions, the sovereign people can stimulate and educe merit under the combined influence of those urgent springs of action -- emulation and recompense. The divines, statesmen, soldiers and writers of New England, fostered by public applause and patronage, have given high proof of their merit, and we regard the Art Union as destined to elevate the character of our artists. Its fostering patronage will prove that, by affording adequate opportunity, New England is as congenial to the arts of design, as the lands which have produced a Michael Angelo, a Praxiteles, a Wilkie, or the Vernsets (i.e. Claude Joseph Vernet, Carle Vernet, Horace Vernet)."[6] In the mid-19th century, a number of art unions were organized in the U.S., some more respectable than others. The New England Art Union enjoyed a solid reputation. As one observer commented:
GalleryAround 1850, local directories and arts publications reported that "the gallery of the institution, no.38 Tremont Row, Boston, is open to the public"[8][9] and "their collection already embraces a number of meritorious works."[10] Visitors to the gallery included Adin Augustus Ballou (son of Socialist Adin Ballou).[11] The gallery exhibited works by:[12] Joseph Ames, William Babcock,[13] Thomas Ball, Charles A. Barry,[14] Albert Fitch Bellows, A. Bierstadt, William T. Carlton,[15] Benjamin Champney, J.A. Codman, C.P. Cranch,[16] Mrs. H. Dassell, Thomas Edwards, Alvan Fisher, W.A. Gay,[17] Samuel L. Gerry, George H. Hall,[18] W.H. Hanley, Albert Gallatin Hoit, H.P. Hunt, D.C. Johnston, J.F. Kensett, John A. Knight, Kurtz, Fitz Henry Lane, W. Morrison, B.F. Nutting, Mrs. Oakes, John Pope, A. Ransom, John W. A. Scott, Thomas T. Spear, P. Stephenson,[19] H.G. Wilde, and Moses Wight. Some of the artists affiliated with the union kept studios in Boston's Tremont Temple, which burned in 1852. Fellow artists took up a collection on behalf of those afflicted by the fire.[20] JournalIn 1852 the union issued its Bulletin, "embellished with a well executed sketch of the engraving [of Washington Allston's painting of Saul and the Witch of Endor], and a woodcut, spiritedly designed by Hammatt Billings, in illustration of Mr. Longfellow's ballad, 'The Skeleton in Armor.'"[8] References1. ^Bulletin of the New England Art Union, no. 1, 1852. 2. ^R.C. Waterston. "American Art and Art Unions." Christian Examiner, March 1850; p.14. 3. ^1 Leah Lipton. "The Boston Artists' Association, 1841-1851." American Art Journal, Vol. 15, No. 4 (Autumn, 1983) 4. ^Joseph Andrews. Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Volume 31, 1907; p.222. 5. ^Boston Daily Atlas, 04-25-1851; p.1. 6. ^"From the American Sentinel. Art in New England." New Hampshire Sentinel, 03-13-1851. 7. ^J.K. Fisher. "The American Art-Union - Its Bulletin." [https://books.google.com/books?id=LrYaAAAAYAAJ Photographic Art-Journal], May 1851; p.284. 8. ^1 "Fine Arts." To-day: a Boston Literary Journal. No.1, Jan. 3, 1852 9. ^Boston Directory 1851. 10. ^The Literary World, Jan. 4, 1851; p.11. 11. ^Adin Ballou, ed. [https://books.google.com/books?id=kZIZAAAAYAAJ Memoir of Adin Augustus Ballou]. Hopedale, Mass.: Community Press, 1853; p.130. 12. ^Smithsonian 13. ^William Perkins Babcock, 1826–1899 14. ^Charles A. Barry, 1830–1892 15. ^William Tolman Carlton, 1816–1888 16. ^Christopher Pearse Cranch, 1813–1892 17. ^Winckworth Allan Gay, 1821–1910 18. ^George Henry Hall, 1823–1913 19. ^Peter Stephenson, about 1823–1860 20. ^Boston Daily Atlas, 04-03-1852; p.2. Further readingPublications of the union
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