Grundmann Studios

Grundmann Studios (1893–1917) in Boston, Massachusetts, was a building on Clarendon Street in the Back Bay. It contained artist's workspaces and multipurpose function rooms Copley Hall and Allston Hall. Prior to 1893, it functioned as a skating rink; after the Boston Art Students' Association leased the building it was renamed in honor of local art educator Emil Otto Grundmann.^[1] The Massachusetts Institute of Technology owned the property.^[2] Tenants included the Copley Society (formerly Boston Art Students' Association); artists Henry R. Blaney,^[3] Herman Dudley Murphy,^[4] Frank Richmond,^[5] Mary Bradish Titcomb;^[6] sculptor John A. Wilson, architect Josephine Wright Chapman; and the College Club.^[7]^[8] The structure existed until 1917, when it was demolished.^[9]

Events in Copley Hall

1890s

Artists Festival, 1894^[10]
Art exhibition to benefit Boston Art Students' Association^[11]
American Arts and Crafts Exhibition^[12]
Daughters of the Revolution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts exhibit^[13]
Artists' Festival, 1898^[14]
John Singer Sargent exhibit^[15]

1900s

Artists Festival, 1900^[16]^[17]
Boston Orchestral Club concert^[18]
Museum of Fine Arts, School of Drawing and Painting, 25th annual exhibit^[19]
James Abbott McNeill Whistler exhibit^[20]^[21]
Monet exhibition^[22]
Artists' Festival, 1907^[23]
Bela Pratt exhibit^[24]

1910s

Spanish art exhibit^[25]
International Exhibition of Modern Art^[26]
Portrait exhibit^[27]
Bertha A. Grover exhibit^[28]

Images

1895 CopleyHall BostonEveningTranscript Feb4.png

Advertisement, Mme. Lineff Russian Choir, Copley Hall, 1895
1898 costume ArtistsFestival Boston.png

Artists' Festival attendee in costume, Copley Hall, 1898
1898 costume2 ArtistsFestival Boston.png

Artists' Festival attendee in costume, Copley Hall, 1898
1904 Whistler CopleyHall Boston LC.jpg

Exhibit of J.M. Whistler, Copley Hall, 1904
1911 GrundmannStudios Boston map bySampsonMurdockCo BPL 12558 detail.png

Detail of map of Boston in 1911, showing Grundmann Studios near Copley Square
1913 ModernArt CopleyHall Boston.png

Catalog, Modern Art exhibit, 1913

References

↑ Copley Society of Art. About CoSo. Retrieved 2012-02-21
↑ "Copley Hall, Proposed Temporary Walker Memorial." The Tech (MIT), Dec. 30, 1907
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↑ American Art News, Vol. 4, No. 9 (Dec. 9, 1905)
↑ American Art News, Vol. 5, No. 12 (Jan. 5, 1907)
↑ Vose Galleries. Mary Bradish Titcomb (1858-1927): Painter of the North Shore
↑ Boston Evening Transcript - Jun 6, 1905
↑ College Club of Boston
↑ American Art Annual, 1917
↑ Boston Evening Transcript - Dec 13, 1894
↑ "A great art show: Boston's loan exhibition of works valued at a million dollars." New York Times, March 6, 1897
↑ Society of Arts and Crafts (Boston, Mass.) First exhibition of the arts and crafts, Copley Hall, Boston, April 5–16, MDCCCXCVII : representing the application of art to industry, and comprising manufactured articles and original designs for the same. Boston : Printed by T.P. Smith, 1897
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↑ Boston Letter. Artists' Festival: Festivities in Honor of the Return of the Crusaders. Brush and Pencil, Vol. 2, No. 4 (Jul., 1898)
↑ American Art Annual, 1899
↑ "Artists' Festival: Copley Hall became a part of Kenilworth last night when Queen Elizabeth was gorgeously entertained by the Earl of Leicester." Boston Evening Transcript - Apr 27, 1900
↑ New York Times, April 10, 1900
↑ Scharfenberg, David. "Young woman with a sax: American's first classical saxophonist to be honored today." Boston Globe, 12 Mar 2000: 10.
↑ Boston Evening Transcript - May 28, 1901
↑ Copley Society blog. James McNeill Whistler Exhibition, 1904. 2012
↑ Library of Congress. Ten prints by James McNeill Whistler on display at Boston Memorial exhibition, Copley Hall, 1904
↑ Boston Globe, March 28, 1905
↑ The Meistersingers of Nuremberg; At the Artists' Festival in Copley Hall, Monday Evening, Jan 28, Will be Reproduced a German Festival of the Sixteenth Century, With All the Georgeous Costumes of that Period--The Interior of an Old German Hall Will Form a Splendid Background for All Sorts of Picturesque Dances and Playful Revel--The Copley Society Will Have the Assistance of the Harvard Glee Club, Pupils of the School of Design, the Tavern Club and Other Boston Organizations. Boston Daily Globe, Jan 27, 1907; p.40.
↑ Bela Lyon Pratt.com Copley Society, Copley Hall, Boston, MA, 1908
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↑ International Exhibition of Modern Art, Copley Society of Boston, Copley Hall, Boston, Mass., 1913
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↑ Boston Globe, Jan. 5, 1915

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[1] Copley Society of Art. About CoSo. Retrieved 2012-02-21

[2] "Copley Hall, Proposed Temporary Walker Memorial." The Tech (MIT), Dec. 30, 1907

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[4] American Art News, Vol. 4, No. 9 (Dec. 9, 1905)

[5] American Art News, Vol. 5, No. 12 (Jan. 5, 1907)

[6] Vose Galleries. Mary Bradish Titcomb (1858-1927): Painter of the North Shore

[7] Boston Evening Transcript - Jun 6, 1905

[8] College Club of Boston

[9] American Art Annual, 1917

[10] Boston Evening Transcript - Dec 13, 1894

[11] "A great art show: Boston's loan exhibition of works valued at a million dollars." New York Times, March 6, 1897

[12] Society of Arts and Crafts (Boston, Mass.) First exhibition of the arts and crafts, Copley Hall, Boston, April 5–16, MDCCCXCVII : representing the application of art to industry, and comprising manufactured articles and original designs for the same. Boston : Printed by T.P. Smith, 1897

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[14] Boston Letter. Artists' Festival: Festivities in Honor of the Return of the Crusaders. Brush and Pencil, Vol. 2, No. 4 (Jul., 1898)

[15] American Art Annual, 1899

[16] "Artists' Festival: Copley Hall became a part of Kenilworth last night when Queen Elizabeth was gorgeously entertained by the Earl of Leicester." Boston Evening Transcript - Apr 27, 1900

[17] New York Times, April 10, 1900

[18] Scharfenberg, David. "Young woman with a sax: American's first classical saxophonist to be honored today." Boston Globe, 12 Mar 2000: 10.

[19] Boston Evening Transcript - May 28, 1901

[20] Copley Society blog. James McNeill Whistler Exhibition, 1904. 2012

[21] Library of Congress. Ten prints by James McNeill Whistler on display at Boston Memorial exhibition, Copley Hall, 1904

[22] Boston Globe, March 28, 1905

[23] The Meistersingers of Nuremberg; At the Artists' Festival in Copley Hall, Monday Evening, Jan 28, Will be Reproduced a German Festival of the Sixteenth Century, With All the Georgeous Costumes of that Period--The Interior of an Old German Hall Will Form a Splendid Background for All Sorts of Picturesque Dances and Playful Revel--The Copley Society Will Have the Assistance of the Harvard Glee Club, Pupils of the School of Design, the Tavern Club and Other Boston Organizations. Boston Daily Globe, Jan 27, 1907; p.40.

[24] Bela Lyon Pratt.com Copley Society, Copley Hall, Boston, MA, 1908

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[26] International Exhibition of Modern Art, Copley Society of Boston, Copley Hall, Boston, Mass., 1913

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[28] Boston Globe, Jan. 5, 1915

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