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Ten American Painters [The Ten].
Group of American painters who exhibited together from 1898 to 1918. In 1897 ten New York- and Boston-based artists withdrew from the Society of American Artists, the most progressive art organization of the period. Their common interest was not the promotion of a new art, but rather the improvement of the quality of their exhibitions. The Ten—a shortened version of the name given to them by the press—was organized by John H. Twachtman, Julian Alden Weir and Childe Hassam. The other members were Frank Weston Benson, Joseph Rodefer De Camp, Thomas Dewing (1851–1938), Willard Leroy Metcalf, Robert Reid (1862–1929), Edward E. Simmons (1852–1931) and Edmund C. Tarbell. There was in fact a total of 11 members, for William Merritt Chase was asked to join when Twachtman died.
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