Woman's Art Club of New York

The club was founded by the artists Anita C. Ashley, Adele Frances Bedell, Elizabeth S. Cheever, Edith Mitchill Prellwitz, and Grace Fitz-Randolph in Fritz-Randolph's studio on Washington Square in New York on January 31, 1889.

[3] The Woman's Art Club accepted members and exhibition contributions from women in the United States and abroad.

For instance, Mary Cassatt, who lived in Paris, exhibited her works.

[1] In 1892 there were about 300 works of art submitted, including watercolors, oils paintings, etchings, pastels and crayons.

[5] Some of its members were: Other turn of the century New York art organizations that exhibited women's work

Woman's Art Club of New York Exhibition Catalogue of 1893
Mary Cassatt, Maternal Caress, 1891, dry point etching. Mary Cassatt presented "a set of those colored dry-point etchings of a pronounced Japanese kind in which she indulges and which look so much like colored lithographs..." of women and children to the 1892 exhibition. [ 1 ]