Pen and Brush Club (also known as Pen + Brush) is an international organization of professional women, writers and artists. 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.
The Pen and Brush Club operates as a publicly supported not-for-profit organization. In 2024, it claimed total revenue of $186,059, total expenses of $849,139, and total assets of $6,672,781.
Notable people
Rashidah Ismaili AbuBakr (1941–), poet and writer Louise Upton Brumback (1867–1929), artist and art activist Ida Josephine Burgess (1855–1934), artist Rose Woodallen Chapman (1875–1923), lecturer, author and editor 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
External links Official website