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From: Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Date: 20071104
Author:Kurt Shaw

Founded in 1910, the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh is one of the oldest continuously operated art associations in the country.

The Chicago Society of Artists is even older, having been founded in 1888.

And though arts groups have been around since the Impressionists, neither Pittsburgh nor Chicago can claim to be the first in this country.

Indeed, that privilege most likely goes to New York's Salmagundi Art club, which originally began as the New York Sketch Club in 1871.

The club changed its name 100 years ago after Washington Irving published "The Salmagundi Papers."

The club has been ...

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