Club Awards Scholarships, Art Historian Speaks

The April meeting of the Woods Hole Women’s Club will award college scholarships to five Precinct One students at an evening meeting on April 14, 2015.  Scholarships will be awarded to Jesse Borgese, Caroline Cobb, Robert Eder, Daniel Morrison, and Dimitry Shribak. The students and their parents are very welcome to enjoy the entire evening’s program following the presentation of the scholarships.

Also on the agenda, art historian Susan Pennington will speak on the Art of 1914, the year of the WHWC’s founding: “The Year American Art Became Modern.” The effects of the Armory Show of 1913 in New York City, Boston, and Chicago introduced European Modern Art to American painters who were not familiar with Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Marcel Duchamp, and Wassily Kandinsky. The American artists worked to update themselves, and the difference between art pre- and post-Armory is very distinctive. Ms. Pennington will also discuss current events accompanying the Art, such as the struggle for women’s suffrage. The 1920 ratification of the 19th Amendment secured the vote for women nationwide and established the principle of equal political rights for women. She will show an assortment of slides of paintings by Americans, British and Europeans illustrating the way women were depicted by artists in and around 1914. She will also briefly survey the architecture of that time.

Ms. Pennington has a Master of Arts from the University of Wisconsin and teaches Art History at the Cape Conservatory. She leads Walking Tours of Woods Hole during the summer for the WH Historical Museum and is the organist at St. Anthony’s Church.

The meeting will begin at 7:00 PM, at the Church of Messiah’s Fisher House on Church Street in Woods Hole. Light refreshments will be served.

The Woods Hole Woman’s Club holds monthly meetings along with educational programs, raises money for college scholarships, and supports various community organizations. New members and guests are very welcome. For more information, contact Christina Rawley, 508-457-5980.