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McCarthy, Helen Kiner (1884-1927) Church at Premezzo.
c. 1925.
Oil on board, with period gallery label on verso, identifying this piece as number seven, with title and artist's name, under glass in a period frame, 10 x 8 in.
McCarthy studied under Elliott Daingerfield and Henry B. Snell at the Philadelphia School of Design. She was an original member of the Philadelphia Ten, a group of female artists who exhibited annually in that city. Their first collective show as held at the Art Club of Philadelphia in 1917. The goal of banding together as a group was to validate the notion that women ought to be accepted as professional artists on the same footing with men.
