The Philadelphia Ten, also known as The Ten, was a group of American female artists who exhibited together from 1917 to 1945. The group, eventually numbering 30 painters and sculptors, exhibited annually in Philadelphia and later had traveling exhibitions at museums throughout the East Coast and the Midwest.
Members of the Philadelphia Ten at their Art Club of Philadelphia exhibition, January 28 – February 11, 1928.
M. Elizabeth Price, The Wine Shop, Quimperle, Brittany, by 1921
Elizabeth Wentworth Roberts, Figures on the Sand, Annisquam, 1915
Helen Kiner McCarthy, Portrait: Red and White, by 1916
Moore College of Art and Design
Moore College of Art & Design is a private art school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1848 by Sarah Worthington Peter as the Philadelphia School of Design for Women, and was renamed the Moore College of Art & Design in 1989.
Although the school's undergraduate programs were historically only open to women, Moore opened admission to transgender, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming students in 2020. Its other educational programs, including graduate programs and youth programs, are co-educational.
Moore College of Art and Design
The building is now known as the Edwin Forrest Mansion, and has housed Freedom Theatre since 1968.
Moore College building at 20th Street and the Parkway in Philadelphia
Penelope Wilson Hall contains studios and offices.
