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The National Academy of Design in New York City is one of the country's oldest continuously operating arts organizations. Loosely modeled on the Royal Academy of Arts in London, it was founded by a group of artists late in 1825, and the following year a Miss C. Roberts hung a landscape in the first annual May exhibition. In the spring of 1827 eighteen artists were elected to membership in the academy, of whom six were female and most had a male relative who was in some way connected to the arts. Daughters of artists included Rosalba Peale, Emily and Maria Maverick, and Julia Fulton. Although this was an auspicious start, it was not a harbinger of things to come, for between 1827 and 1900 only eleven more women were admitted.
By 1831 women were able to enroll in the National Academy of Design School where they could study art, except in life classes, which were not opened to women until 1847. Between the 1820s and the 1860s women's participation in the annual exhibitions grew at a steady pace, and by 1880 they made up fourteen percent of the contributors. An exhibition that chronicles the role of women artists at the National Academy of Design is on view at that ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Women artists in New York City.