Page Talbott

Page Talbott is Principal, Talbott Exhibits and Planning, and until July 2016 was president and CEO of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. During her fifteen years as consulting curator for Moore College of Art and Design, she studied and wrote about the artists of The Philadelphia Ten, many of whom attended the school when it was known as the Philadelphia School of Design. Among her many publications are The Philadelphia Ten: A Women’s Artist Group, 1917-1945, with Patricia Tanis Sydney and Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better World (Yale University Press, 2005).

Philadelphia Ten

When an exhibition of 247 paintings opened on February 17, 1917, at the Art Club of Philadelphia, 220 S. Broad Street, it heralded the birth of the Philadelphia Ten (also known as The Ten), an evolving all-women’s group of painters and sculptors that exhibited together for nearly thirty years. Soon their exhibitions became an annual ...