#66 Mary Chase Perry Stratton organizing tiles for the Rainbow Fountain at Cranbrook Oriental Garden
#67 The Rainbow Fountain at Cranbrook Oriental Garden
#68 Full view of the Rainbow Fountain at Cranbrook Oriental Garden
#69 Guardian Building in Detroit
#70 Interior of the Guardian Building
#71 In later years she continued to be involved with the Society and attended our 50th Anniversary celebration in 1953.
#72 Mary Chase Perry Stratton
William B. Stratton (husband of Mary Chase Perry) had approached the Society for support in funding the Detroit School of Design. The artists contributed individually and as a group.
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#62 Mary Chase Perry StrattonAt the founders organizational meeting in 1903, Mary Chase Perry of the Pewabic Pottery was made an honorary member of the Society.
Mary Chase Perry Stratton (Mrs. William B.) started Pewabic Potter in a barn studio on John R. Ave. and Alfred St.
#63 Five Pewabic Pottery vases
She made some thrilling discoveries, finding again the beautiful blue and copper of old oriental glazes, the secrets of which had been lost for centuries.
Her work is particularly distinguished for her iridescent metallic glazes.
#64 Pewabic Pottery on Jefferson Ave., Detroit
Pewabic Pottery tiles can be seen locally today:
Chirst Church, Cranbrook,
Detroit Institute of Art,
Detroit pubic Library,
The Women’s City Club,
St. Paul’s Cathedral, and the Public Schools of Grosse Pointe,
The Union Guardian Building of Detroit are examples of her work.
Charles Freer said, these artwork will be remembered long after Detroit factories are forgotten.
#65 Mary Chase Perry Stratton and Horace James Caulkins (her partner)
Mary Chase Perry Stratton and Horace James Caulkins admiring one of the Pewabic mosaics prepared for the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception within the workshop of Pewabic Pottery.
One of her most important works is the tile made for the Shrine of the Immmaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. Architects called it the most ambitious project in the field of ceramics as applied to architecture ever to be undertaken in this country.
#66 Mary Chase Perry Stratton organizing tiles for the Rainbow Fountain at Cranbrook Oriental Garden
#67 The Rainbow Fountain at Cranbrook Oriental Garden
#68 Full view of the Rainbow Fountain at Cranbrook Oriental Garden
#69 Guardian Building in Detroit
#70 Interior of the Guardian Building
#71 In later years she continued to be involved with the Society and attended our 50th Anniversary celebration in 1953.
#72 Mary Chase Perry Stratton
William B. Stratton (husband of Mary Chase Perry) had approached the Society for support in funding the Detroit School of Design. The artists contributed individually and as a group.
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#73 Detroit School of Design Classroom 1912
In 1911 the Detroit School of Design was opened on Jefferson and Rivard. Society member Marion Loud, was dean at one time. She was later head of the Art Department of Ligget University School for 25 years.
Some Society members have relatives who attended the school. Current member Charmaine Kaptur’s father attended Detroit School of Design. He designed
#74 Woman with work at Detroit School of Design
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#75-76 Scarab Club
The Scarab Club was formed in 1907 as the Hopkins Club after marine painter Robert Hopkins.
The Scarab Club board repeatedly asked the Society to become a women’s auxiliary group to the men’s only club. The Scarab Club allowed the Society to hold its annual exhibitions there but did not admit women until 1962. The DSWPS declined the offers and has remained an independent group since its inception.
#77 DSWPS members in Spanish Costume
The club's themed costumed balls, held from 1917 to 1950, were the single most important social event in Detroit each year.
#78 DSWPS Exhibition Catalog 1947 Scarab Club
For 40 years beginning in 1933 DSWPS held it annual exhibits at the Scarab Club.
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#79 Detroit Artists Market 1952
DSWPS members have been accepted to DAM open-call shows since its inception.
Mildred Simpson
As the story goes, DAM was founded in a garden in Grosse Pointe during the Great Depression (1932) as a venue for artists to exhibit and sell their work. The founders were led by socialite Mildred, or as she preferred to be known, Mrs. H. Lee Simpson.
#81 Detroit Artists Market 1952
#82 Amy Lorimer “Washington Boulevard” Solo Show at DAM
#83 1980 Free Press Article
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Artwork of some past DSWPS members
#84 Miriam L. Candler
#85 “Miss G” by Della Garretson of her twin sister Lillie
#86 Detail of photo from Detroit News showing Della and Lillie Garretson
#87 Jane C. Stanley
#88 Jane C. Stanley
#89 Jane C. Stanley
#90 Mary McLellan Hamilton (1891-1939)
“Pixie”, 1926, watercolor on ivory (3”x2”)
Metropolitan Art Museum Miniature Collection
#91 Brittany Market by Mildred E. Wiilliams
A fine American painter and lithographer, Mildred Emerson Williams first studied art at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and at the Art Students League of New York, under Robert Henri, John Sloan, and George Luks.
#92 Corner of Chartres (shart), lithograph by Mildred E. Williams
She later concluded her studies in Paris in the late 1920's. Corner in Chartres probably dates from this period.
#93 Detroit River and Skyline by Mildred E. Williams
#94 Alice Guysi
#95 Iris Andrews Miller - 2 paintings
#96 Elizabeth Palmer Bradfield – Sculpture of Great Dane
#97 Mary Longyear Palmer – 2 paintings
#98 Hanny Van der Velde
#99 Alice Hagerman Thurber
#100 Ann Bedford Goodman
#101 Lois Murphy
LATE 20TH CENTURY ARTIST MEMBERS
#102 Helen May
Art instructor, Detroit School of Design, Univ. Liggett and WSU.
Taught Louise Nobili and Mary Jane Bigler
#103-105 Louise J. Nobili
WSU Professor established summer art program in Italy
104- First Sunday in November (venice canal)
105- Japanese Fireworks over Hudson River
#106 Mary Jane Bigler
Instrumental in establishing the Michigan Watercolor Society
WSU professor emphasized self-discovery and personal content
#107 Helen Cartmell
A prolific oil painter and portrait artist, she showed in the Goedekke Gallery in Harmony Park to rave reviews in the Detroit News. She assisted in the murals in the People Mover stations, using dry pigments before the firing of the tiles. She received awards in most shows she entered.
#108 Lorraine Chambers McCarty
Lorraine studied with Glen Michaels (Cranbrook) Robert Wilbert (WSU) and Thomas Hart Benton to name a few. She taught at the Flint Institute of Art (1970-1985) and many other art venues in Southeast Michigan. A pilot since 1962, she flew in the Powder Puff Derby, and won the International Air Race for Women. She was the official artist of the United States Air Force (1981-1999). She was advisor & designer for the International Women’s Air and Space Museum in Ohio. Her works are in the DIA and Smithsonian Institute museums. Her many commissions include murals for General Dynamics, Alpena Light & Power Co., Lear Siegler Seating Co., the Capitol City Airport, MI, Upjohn Pharmaceutical Headquarters, Dow Chemical, and the Hi-Lex Corp. of Michigan and Japan. She also produced a television series The Artist in You, and was inventor and designer of Artist’s Eye: a Visual Aid for Artists.
#109 Nancy Prophit
In the 70s Nancy started a 6 member artists coop after the studio where she painted closed. She did all the organization and paperwork herself. There, and at another studio/gallery on Mack, she organized a Monday Evening “Life Study Workshop”. In recalling those Monday nights, her daughter says Nancy always made dinner before leaving for the studio. If a model had to cancel, she would enlist one of the kids to model. She was relentless in ensuring that her group of artist friends had a “live” model. Nancy and her husband would spend weeks cycling on a tandem bicycle in Scotland – living off what they had packed in their saddlebags.
Nancy loved learning new things and even studied gold leafing and icon painting. One icon is on the right side of the altar at St. Paul’s on the Lake Catholic Church in Grosse Pointe. So far, her kids have photographed 1,346 individual pieces and are still having people say, “I have one of your mom’s paintings.
Current Members 2017 (a few of the 160 members of 2017)
#110 Linda Allen
#111 Estella Boudreau
#112 Maria Kennedy Brow
#113 Erica Chappuis
#115 Zena Carnaghi
#116 Regina J. Dunne
#117 Charmaine Kaptur
#118 Janet Kondziela
#119 Carol La Chiusa
#120 Martine MacDonald
#121 Kathleen McNamee
#122 E. Susan Munro
#123 Kathleen O’Connell
#124 Rose Rhodes
#125 Marilynn Thomas
#126 Nobuko Yamasaki
#127 Lori Zurvalec
#128 Jackie Rybinski
