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According to the group's constitution: "The artists of Boston, deeply impressed with the importance of their profession, and with the necessity of a systematic course of study for its successful culmination; also with the advantages to be derived from mutual co-operation and support, resolve to form
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themselves into an association for the furtherance of these objects. In so doing, they pledge to each other their honor as gentlemen, to lay aside all ungenerous, envious, or selfish feelings, and to seek the advancement of the arts alone, for the art's sake."
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1844 - 3rd Boston Artists' Association exhibit, at Harding's Gallery. Lenders to the exhibit: Professor Ticknor; Mrs. Allston; Col. H. Sargent; T.H. Perkins; Daniel Webster; J.B. Joy; H.C. Stebbins; Mrs.
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Unrivaled exhibition at City Hall: Champney's immense moving picture of the River Rhine! showing both banks of this most celebrated river of Europe. 1849. American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series 1, no.
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The constitution of the Boston Artists' Association, with a catalogue of the first public exhibition of paintings at Harding's Gallery, no. 22 School Street. Boston: John H. Eastburn, printer, 1842.
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James F. O'Gorman. Accomplished in all departments of art--Hammatt Billings of Boston, 1818-1874. Univ of Massachusetts Press, 1998; p.11.
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Catalogue of paintings, of the third exhibition of the Boston Artists' Association, 1844. Boston: Clapp and Son's Press, 1844.
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Chester Harding's portrait of Abbott Lawrence, ca.1842; exhibited in the 1st exhibit of the Boston Artists Association, 1842
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1842 - 1st Boston Artists' Association exhibit, at Harding's Gallery. Included: Henry Sargent; Fitz Henry Lane;
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Leah Lipton. "The Boston Artists' Association, 1841-1851." American Art Journal, Vol. 15, No. 4 (Autumn, 1983)
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There were "44 members in 1842, and 66 in 1845." They held "regularly scheduled bi-weekly social meetings" in
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Norman A. Geske. A Pioneer Minnesota Artist . Minnesota History, Vol. 31, No. 2 (Jun., 1950); p.101.
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James A. Craig. Fitz H. Lane: an artist's voyage through nineteenth-century America. 2006; p.73.
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Catalogue of paintings of the second exhibition of the Boston Artists' Association, 1843
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Athenaeum, Pearl Street, where Boston Artists Association exhibits were held, 1845-1847
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1847 - Joint exhibition of the Boston Artists' Association and the Boston Athenaeum.
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1846 - Joint exhibition of the Boston Artists' Association and the Boston Athenaeum.
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1845 - Joint exhibition of the Boston Artists' Association and the Boston Athenaeum.
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William Howe Downes. Boston Painters and Paintings. Atlantic Monthly, Sept. 1888
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1843 - 2nd Boston Artists' Association exhibit, at Harding's Gallery. Included:
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ca.1821; exhibited in the 1st exhibit of the Boston Artists Association, 1842
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Boston Athenaeum Exhibition. Boston Daily Atlas, May 26, 1848.
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Boston Artists Association. Boston Daily Atlas, April 4, 1842.
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Ad for 1842 exhibit of the Boston Artists Association
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Boston
Massachusetts
Washington Allston
Henry Sargent
Chester Harding
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School Street
Athenaeum
John Pope
B.F. Nutting
Harding's Gallery
Tremont Row
Henry Sargent's The Dinner Party ca.1821; exhibited in the 1st exhibit of the Boston Artists Association, 1842
Chester Harding's portrait of Abbott Lawrence, ca.1842; exhibited in the 1st exhibit of the Boston Artists Association, 1842
Ad for 1842 exhibit of the Boston Artists Association
Thomas Cole's Old Age from Voyage of Life, 1842; exhibited in the 2nd exhibit of the Boston Artists Association, 1843
Voyage of Life
Athenaeum, Pearl Street, where Boston Artists Association exhibits were held, 1845-1847
Francis Alexander
Washington Allston
Joseph Alexander Ames
Thomas G. Appleton
Thomas Ball
Hammatt Billings
Joseph Edward Billings
Joseph Carew
George Fuller
Samuel Gerry
Richard Saltonstall Greenough
A.G. Hoit

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