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unusual facts about Society of Artists


History painting

From 1760 onwards the British Society of Artists, the first body to organize regular exhibitions in London, awarded two generous prizes each year to paintings of subjects from British history.



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1949 in art

Young Contemporaries exhibition, initiated by Carel Weight for the British Society of Artists Galleries, establishes the New Contemporaries series.

Art Academy of Cincinnati

Joseph Henry Sharp, (1873-1892), was one of the six founding members of the "Taos Society of Artists".

Grace Bilger

She was a member of the International Society of Artists (Artists' International Association), the Greater Kansas City Art Association, and Tri-County Art League.

Hennings

Ernest Martin Hennings (1886–1956), American painter, member of Taos Society of Artists

Imre Ámos

In 1936, he was elected to be a member of the New Society of Artists, which entailed working in Szentendre during the summer months.

Mabel Mary Spanton

Elsewhere her work was exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy; Royal Hibernian Academy; Royal Cambrian Academy; Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolours; Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts; Abbey Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent; Royal Society of Artists Birmingham; Walker Art Gallery Liverpool; and at Bristol, Derby, Oldham, Hull, Newlyn, Southport, and Aberdeen.

Robert Zuppke

Zuppke was a member of the No-Jury Society of Artists in Chicago and an acquaintance of Ernest Hemingway.

Wilhelmina Barns-Graham

Barns-Graham became a member of the Newlyn Society of Artists and the St Ives Society of Artists but was to leave the latter when, in 1949, the St Ives art community suffered an acrimonious split, and she became a founder member of a breakaway group of abstract artists, the Penwith Society of Arts.