Editing Vorticism (section)

== Vorticists at the Penguin Club ==

Ezra Pound had been championing Wyndham Lewis's work from 1915 with a successful New York lawyer and art collector, [[John Quinn (collector)|John Quinn]].<ref>Vivien Greene, ‘Ezra Pound and John Quinn: The 1917 Penguin Club Exhibition’,  in Antliff & Greene (eds.), ''The Vorticists'', p.76.</ref> Relying on Pound's recommendations, a New York Vorticist exhibition was built around forty-six works by Lewis – some already in Quinn's collection – with additional work by Etchells, Roberts, Dismorr, Saunders and Wadsworth. The exhibition was to be at an artist-run establishment, the Penguin Club in New York.<ref>8 East 15th Street, New York City.</ref> Pound arranged for the transportation of works across the Atlantic, and Quinn took on the entire exhibition costs.<ref>Greene, ‘Ezra Pound and John Quinn’, pp. 78, 81.</ref> Quinn had already selected works that he was interested in buying, but after the exhibition, as no works had sold, he eventually purchased most of the larger items.<ref>Greene, ‘Ezra Pound and John Quinn’, p. 81.</ref>