Women's Guild of Arts

The Women's Guild of Arts was founded in 1907 by Arts and Crafts artists May Morris and Mary Elizabeth Turner. The organisation offered female artists an alternative to the Art Workers Guild, the artists' association established in 1884 and based on the ideas of William Morris and the Arts and Crafts Movement, as this was not open to women.[1][2][3] The Women's Guild was established with May Morris as its First President and watercolourist and engraver Mary Annie Sloane as its Honorary Secretary. Other members included Agnes Garrett, Mary Lowndes, Marianne Stokes, Evelyn De Morgan, Georgie Gaskin and Mary J. Newill.

Notes
  1. "The Art Workers' Guild | History". The Art Workers’ Guild. Retrieved 2017-05-15.
  2. Thomas, Zoe (June 2015). "'At Home with the Women's Guild of Arts: gender and professional identity in London studios, c. 1880-1925'". Women's History Review. 24 (6): 938–964. doi:10.1080/09612025.2015.1039348.
  3. See also the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entry on the Women's Guild of Arts

References
  • Elletson, Helen, May Morris, Hammersmith and the Women's Guild of Arts (pp. 141–154) in Hulse, Lynn, editor May Morris: Art & Life. New Perspectives, Friends of the William Morris Gallery, 2017 ISBN 978-1910-885-529.


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