January 2008

ISBN 13: 978-061515499-2
ISBN: 0-615-15499-9
216 pages
30 x 23 cm.
75 color plates
175 black & white
US $ 60.00
UK £ 30.00

First catalogue of the permanent collection of this 109-year-old historic institution in New York City.

Features works by the National Arts Club's members rarely seen by the public consisting of a fine selection of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century American art, with a special focus on the Impressionist and Realist traditions.

Artists featured include John Carlson, Philip Leslie Hale, Charles Hawthorne, Robert Henri, Ernest Lawson, Hayley Lever, and William MacGregor Paxton.

Sculptors represented include Anna Hyatt Huntington, Malvina Hoffman, and Paul Manship

Located in an historic landmark building in New York City's Gramercy Park, the club, over its 109-year history, has had as members three American presidents Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson and Dwight D. Eisenhower, in addition to patrons like Pierpont Morgan and Henry Clay Frick.

As distinguished Artist Life Members, the Club counts Robert Henri, Frederic Remington, William Merritt Chase, Cecilia Beaux, Alfred Stieglitz and Will Barnet among others. This publication is the first presentation of this remarkable collection of early American artists.

Dr. Carol Lowrey, a specialist in North American art of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, is Curator of the Permanent Collection at the National Arts Club in New York.