Pen and Brush Club

Pen and Brush Club (also known as Pen + Brush) is an international organization of professional women, writers and artists.^[1] Organized in 1897, the women formed themselves into a club of which the object was to be recreation and the promotion of social dialogue. An occasional afternoon "Shop Talk", for members only, affords opportunity for free helpful discussion of professional matters, and a tea is given on Tuesday of each week, to which members may invite their friends informally, while on the first Sunday of every month from October to May, a reception is held in honor of some guest of literary or artistic note. The original location was at 26 West Twenty-second Street, New York City. ^[2]

The Pen and Brush Club operates as a publicly supported not-for-profit organization.^[3]

Notable people

Louise Upton Brumback (1867-1929), artist and art activist
Ida Josephine Burgess (1855–1934), artist
Kate Cory (1861-1958), photographer and artist
Lillian Cotton (1892–1962), painter
Mabel Potter Daggett (1871-1927), writer, journalist, editor
Scottie McKenzie Frasier (1884-1964), author, newspaper editor
Emma Sheridan Fry (1864-1936), actress, playwright, and teacher
Dorothy Giles (1892–1960), non-fiction author
Magdalena Gómez (1953-), playwright, poet
Helen Hamlin (1917-2004) was an American author
Emily Nichols Hatch (1871- 1959), painter
Marion Campbell Hawthorne (1870-1945), painter
Mabel Hewit (1903–1984), woodblock print artist
Nell Choate Jones (1879–1981), artist
Janet Cook Lewis (1855-1947), portrait painter, librarian, and bookbinder
Betty Waldo Parish (1910–1986), printmaker and painter
Alethea Hill Platt (1860-1932), artist and educator
Emily Maria Scott (1832-1915), artist
Martha Simkins (1866–1969), painter
Jeanie Oliver Davidson Smith (1836-1925), poet and romancist
Ida Tarbell (1857-1944), writer, investigative journalist, biographer
Adele Watson (1873-1947), painter and lithographer

References

^ Jones, Alex A. (4 September 2019). "Pen + Brush". The Brooklyn Rail. Retrieved 1 December 2023.
^ "The Pen and Brush Club". Club Women of New York. Mail and Express Company. 1904. pp. 59–60. Retrieved 30 November 2023. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
^ "Historical Note | A Finding Aid to the Pen and Brush records, 1894-1964". Archives of American Art. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 1 December 2023.