[Rarebooks] FS: 16-Year Run of The Century Association Yearbook [Manhattan club]

[Joslin Hall Rare Books, Ephemera & Photographs]

16-Year Run of The Century Yearbook 2001-2016.

Published in New York by The Century Association.

The Association’s website explains- “The Century is an Association of 
over two thousand authors, artists, and amateurs of letters and fine 
arts. For the club’s purposes, “amateurs” are defined as men and women 
“of any occupation provided their breadth of interest and qualities of 
mind and imagination make them sympathetic, stimulating, and congenial 
companions in a society of authors and artists.” The Century is a 
quintessentially New York place: Despite its debt to London clubs and 
the national and even international character of its membership, it 
could exist nowhere else. Its main activity is conversation”.

Wikipedia provides a little more background- “The Century Association is 
a private club in New York City. It evolved out of an earlier 
organization – the Sketch Club, founded in 1829 by editor and poet 
William Cullen Bryant and his friends – and was established in 1847 by 
Bryant and others as a club to promote interest in the fine arts and 
literature which was open to "Artists, Literary Men, Scientists, 
Physicians, Officers of the Army and Navy, members of the Bench and Bar, 
Engineers, Clergymen, Representatives of the Press, Merchants and men of 
leisure." It was originally intended to have a limited membership of 100 
men. Its early members included Bryant; painters Asher Durand, Winslow 
Homer, Jervis McEntee, and John Frederick Kensett; sculptor Paul 
Manship; architect Stanford White; judge Charles Patrick Daly; author 
Lewis Gaylord Clark; and architect Calvert Vaux, who, along with 
Frederick Law Olmsted, was the co-creator of Central Park. The Century 
possesses a notable art collection, including important works by Asher 
Durand, Thomas Cole, Thomas Doughty, and other Hudson River School 
painters. It is also an important venue for the exhibition of 
contemporary art created by its members. The club agreed to start 
admitting women members in 1989, after a strenuous legal battle”.

The Club’s yearbooks appear on the market very infrequently.

Hardcovers. 5.5”x7”, 500+ pages each. Minor wear, essentially fine.  
[46492]  $150

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