Copley Society of Art

Copley Society of Art
Copley Society of art
Established 1879
Location 158 Newbury Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02116
Website www.copleysociety.org

The Copley Society of art is America's oldest non-profit art association. It was founded in 1879[1] by the first graduating class of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and continues to play an important role in promoting its member artists and the visual arts in Boston. The gallery currently represents over 400 living artist members, ranging in experience from students to nationally recognized artists and in style from traditional and academic realists to contemporary and abstract painters, photographers, sculptors, and printmakers. Several of the artists working in the tradition of the Boston School of painters exhibit at the Copley Society of Art, along with Guild Of Boston Artists a few doors down from the Copley Society of Art's Newbury Street location.

The gallery hosts between 15 and 20 exhibitions each year, including solo exhibitions, thematic group shows, juried competitions, and fundraising events.

The most well known of these events is the annual "Fresh Paint" auction. Several artist members are chosen by the gallery to spend one day together painting outside in the city. The paintings are brought back to the gallery wet, placed directly into frames and mounted on the walls for sale through silent auction. The final night of the week-long event, A few selected pieces are included in a live auction. Although usual commission split for the gallery is 60 percent to the artist and 40 percent to the Copley Society, for this event the artists are required to donate 50 percent of the sale, and encouraged to donate up to 100 percent of the selling price to the non-profit organization.

The Copley Society has helped establish the careers of many of Boston's prominent full-time professional fine artists, including Sam Vokey, Charles Tersolo, Janis Saunders, Sergio Roffo, Dianne Panarelli-Miller, and Mikel Wintermantel.

References

  1. ^ Oliver, Jean N. (Sept. 1904). "The Copley Society of Boston". The New England Magazine XXXI: 605–617. http://books.google.com/books?id=Ta8VAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA605. 

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