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The following members were transferred to the list of Non Residents.
Jas. S. King - Wm. St. John Harper
W.L. Lathrop - J A. S. Monks
It was decided that the Catalogue of the next exhibition should be embellished with five etchings instead of eight; that the edition should be reduced to 500 copies and contain a prefatory article to be prepared by Mr James D. Smillie.
On motion a Committee was appointed to assist the Secretary in the preparation of the Catalogue. Mr Smillie and Mr. Chapman were named for this duty.
The selection of the etchers to execute the five plates was left to the Committee. The New York Etching Club’s 1891 catalogue was illustrated with etchings by Samuel Colman, Frederick S. Church, Charles A. Platt, William L. Lathrop, and Carlton T. Chapman.
It was decided to issue a circular to the friends&patrons of the Club and to the Artists defining the sort of work the club wishes to encourage in the future. A considerable discussion arose as to tecnicalities of wording which was finally decided to leave to the above The word “Executive” was scratched out in ink in the original copy of the minutes and the word “above” written in to replace it. See reference in minutes for Friday, December 12, 1890. Committee. The Club now adjourned.
W.H. Shelton Secy
The regular meeting of the Club was held in the Studio of Mr Carlton,T. Chapman on the above date. The following members were
present; Otto.H. Bacher, A.H.Baldwin, Robt.F.Bloodgood, F.S.Church, Henry Farrer, Hamilton Hamilton, Thos. Moran, J.C. Nicoll, Alexandr Schilling, Kruseman, Van Elten, T. W. Wood, Carlton T. Chapman.
The minutes of the last meeting were read, and, after the word “above” had been substituted for the word “executive” – which designated committee having charge of the circular issued by this club last spring – they were adopted._
Upon motion by Mr Wood and duly seconded , Messrs Bloodgood and Bacher were appointed hanging committee for the coming election._
Mr Chas. F. W. Mielatz - *55, West 33d. St was unanimously elected a member of the Club._
The Character of the coming exhibition was then discussed at some length, it was decided, that:
“No Etchings from dealers will be received” the Hanging Committee were instructed to act accordingly in their selections of works_
The following Resolution was also introduced and adopted:
Resolved:- That it is the sense of this meeting that in the selection and hanging of works in the next exhibition, the committee should give the preference to original etchings, and not to those made after other men’s designs._______ On February 1, 1891, The New York Times published a positive review of the New York Etching Club exhibition. “Certainly it is a vast improvement on recent exhibitions of the club,” the reviewer stated, “though it no longer offers the attractions to uneducated eyes which consisted of big landscapes and genre pictures that invaded the province of oils and by their cheapness sought to persuade people of limited means to buy them as substitutes for more legitimate means of art expression. Lovers of true etching, of engravings on metal called dry points, the soft effects of mezzotints and the broad handling of aquatints will recognize at once that a determined effort has been made to start the club on the right road, away from etchings by the million toward etchings in which the art of the etcher and painter shows itself for good or evil. Should the club be encouraged to adhere to this policy, no doubt a finer exhibition than the present can be given, but meantime what there is hanged about the corridor of the Academy of Design is of very high grade of workmanship.”
It was moved and carried that the Secretary be authorized to engage a salesman for the coming exhibition.
The following names were placed on the Non-Resident members list:
C Morgan Mc Ilhenny Shrub Oak. N. Y.
Frederick.W.Freer Chicago
Reginald, Cleveland, Cox. East Gloucester Mass.
The following resolution was introduced
and adopted:
Resolved: ____That the New York Etching Club recommends the appointment of Mr. S. R. Koehler as Art director for the Columbian
Exposition to be held at Chicago.
A copy was ordered written out on the paper of the club and sent to Mr Nicoll to be forwarded in right channel.
After this the meeting adjourned.
approved Alexander Schilling
Secretary
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