Artists' Suffrage League

Political poster produced by the Artists' Suffrage League

The Artists' Suffrage League (ASL) (1907-c.1918) was a suffrage society formed to change parliamentary opinion and engage in public demonstrations and other propaganda activities.

The ASL was established in Jan 1907 to assist with the preparations for the Mud March organised by the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies in Feb 1907. Mary Lowndes was a founder member in 1907 and its chairman in 1913. Other than the central committee of chair, vice-chair and treasurer, the organisation had no traditional formal structure or statement of aims. Lowndes' home, the Brittany Studios at 259 King's Road in Chelsea was used as the studio for thegroup of professional women artists who formed the ASL. The ASL produced posters and postcards and designed and produced around 80 embroidered banners for the Mud March in 1908. In 1913 the ASL was supplying posters to women's suffrage groups in America. Lowndes and the league moved to 27 Trafalgar Square in Chelsea in 1917.[1]

The body was responsible for the creation of a large number of posters, Christmas cards, postcards and banners designed by artists who included the chair Mary Lowndes, Emily Ford, Barbara Forbes, May H Barker, Clara Billing, Dora Meeson Coates, Violet Garrard, Bertha Newcombe, C Hedly Charlton and Emily J Harding. The ASL was responsible for the decoration of the Queens Hall for the celebrations in 1918 that had been organised by the NUWSS.

Archives

The archives of the Artists' Suffrage League are held at The Women's Library at the London School of Economics.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Historic England, "The former studio of the Artists' Suffrage League (1520606)", PastScape, retrieved 22 February 2015
  2. ↑ "The Women's Library at LSE Search results", London School of Economics, retrieved 22 February 2015

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