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The letter from Mr. J. Alden Weir notifying the Club that he would be absent for a year or
more, was read and his name accordingly transferred to the list of Non-Resident Members. J. Alden Weir’s name was dropped from the Members list but was never transferred to the Non-Resident Members list that appeared annually in the exhibition catalogues published by the club. His name reappeared on the Resident Members list for one year in 1893. Weir independently exhibited prints in Club annuals in 1886, 1891, and 1892.
The letter from Mr. W. J. Arkell was read inviting the members to send etchings to the exhibition of the Mt Mc Gregor Art Gallery. W. J. Arkell was once a vice president of the Saratoga, Mount McGregor and Lake George Railroad Company. In 1882, that company conceived, built, and opened a resort known as the Hotel Balmoral, at Mt. McGregor, in the vicinity of Saratoga Springs, New York. The hotel grounds included the free-standing Mt. McGregor Art Gallery in the proximity of Artist Lake. A record of an exhibition involving the New York Etching Club at Mt. McGregor Art Gallery has not been located.
The Secretary was directed to thank Mr. Arkell and assure him of the co-operation of members of the Club.
The Secretary was directed to apply to the American Water Color Society for permission to exhibit in its Seventeenth Annual
Exhibition upon the same conditions as during the last two years.
The Executive Committee were directed to make arrangements for publishing an illustrated catalogue of the exhibition of 1884
similar to those previously issued by this Club.
The meeting adjourned without further action.
J. C. Nicoll
Secty.
Approved Dec 14/83
A meeting of the Executive Committee was held at this date in the Secretary’s studio. It was called to order at 4.30 P. M. by the President with Messers Farrer, Nicoll, Dielman and Church present.
The following persons were selected to make plates for the next catalogue viz – Messers Dielman, Farrer, Nimmo Moran, Peter Moran, Sabin, J. D. Smillie Colman, and Mc Cutcheon. Stephen Parrish and Kruseman van Elten replaced Frederick Dielman and Joseph F. Sabin with etchings for the 1884 exhibition catalogue.
In case any of these should fail to make plates, Messers Parrish, van Elten and Yale were chosen as substitutes, to be selected in the order here named. The New York Etching Club’s 1884 catalogue was illustrated with eight etchings by Samuel Coleman, Henry Farrer, Mary Nimmo Moran, Peter Moran, Stephen G. McCutcheon, Stephen Parrish, James D. Smillie, and Kruseman van Elten.
It was decided that the Club should contribute to the Exposition Internationale des Arts Graphique’ at Vienna 1883, and the Secretary was directed to notify members and make all necessary arrangements.
J. C. Nicoll
Secty.
The Regular Meeting was held at this date in the Secretary’s studio, at 8 P.M.
It was called to order by the President with ten members present viz – Messers Baldwin, Church, Farrer, thos. Moran, Nicoll, Sabin,
J. D. Smillie, Van Elten, Shirlaw, Wood.
The minutes of the last regular meeting were read and approved.
The Secretary gave an informal report of his action in regard to the exhibition of the Society of Graphic Arts at Vienna. In Mary Schmidt’s Index to Nineteenth Century American Art Periodicals , 1999, there is a reference to a New York Herald article containing a list of New York Etching Club artists intending to exhibit at the planned Exposition in Vienna. Research into the referenced Exposition, though, even with Vienna-based assistance, uncovered no press or catalogue record of the event.
Mesers Shirlaw and Sabin were elected as Hanging Committee for the ensuing year.
Mr. Geo H. Galt was appointed to act as salesman at the next annual exhibition.
The following nominations were made
Messers Walter Saterlee, by J. C. Nicoll,&A. Landau (14 John St) by Van Elten, for resident members, and Mr. I. M.
Gaugengigl of Boston, by Nicoll as Non-Resident Member.
The resignation of Mr. J. Alden Weir was read and accepted.
It was decided to place the printing of etchings in the next catalogue in the hands of Messers Kimmel&Voigt.
Mr. J. D. Smillie gave an account of the negotiations he had had in behalf of members of the Club who had exhibited with the London Society of Painter Etchers
After some discussion upon the exhibitions of that Society it was Resolved – that it is advisable for members of this Club to send etchings to the next exhibition of the Society of Painter-Etchers, London.
Mr. Smillie was chosen as a Committee to assist in carrying out this resolution.
The meeting adjourned without further action at ten P.M.
J. C. Nicoll
Secty.
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