The Art Students League of New York 215 W 57th St New York Ny 10019

Fine art schoolhouse in Manhattan, New York

The Art Students League of New York is an fine art school at 215 West 57th Street in Manhattan, New York Metropolis, New York. The League has historically been known for its broad appeal to both amateurs and professional artists.

Although artists may study full-fourth dimension, in that location have never been any degree programs or grades, and this breezy mental attitude pervades the culture of the schoolhouse. From the 19th century to the present, the League has counted amongst its attendees and instructors many historically important artists, and contributed to numerous influential schools and movements in the art world.

The League also maintains a significant permanent collection of student and kinesthesia work, and publishes an online journal of writing on art-related topics, called LINEA. The periodical'southward name refers to the school's motto Nulla Dies Sine Linea or "No Day Without a Line", traditionally attributed to the Greek painter Apelles by the historian Pliny the Elder, who recorded that Apelles would non let a mean solar day pass without at least drawing a line to practice his fine art.^[1]

History [edit]

Founded in 1875, the League'due south creation came about in response to both an predictable gap in the program of the National Academy of Design's program of classes for that year, and to longer-term desires for more multifariousness and flexibility in didactics for artists. The breakaway group of students included many women, and was originally housed in rented rooms at 16th Street and Fifth Avenue.^{[ii] [3]}

When the Academy resumed a more typical—but liberalized—program in 1877, there was some feeling that the League had served its purpose, but its students voted to proceed its program, and it was incorporated the following year. Influential board members from this formative period included painter Thomas Eakins and sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens. Membership continued to increase, forcing the League to relocate to increasingly larger spaces.

The League participated in the founding of the American Fine Arts Society (AFAS) in 1889, together with the Society of American Artists and the Architectural League, among others. The American Fine Arts Building at 215 Westward 57th Street, synthetic as their joint headquarters, has continued to firm the League since 1892.^[4] Designed in the French Renaissance manner by ane of the founders of the AFAS, builder Henry Hardenbergh (in collaboration with W.C. Hunting & J.C. Jacobsen), the edifice is a designated New York City Landmark^[5] and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

In the late 1890s and early 1900s an increasing number of women artists came to report and piece of work at the League many of them taking on key roles. Among them were Wilhelmina Weber Furlong and her husband Thomas Furlong. The avant-garde couple served the league in executive and administrative roles and every bit student members throughout the American modernism movement.^[six] Alice Van Vechten Brown, who would later develop some of the get-go art programs in American higher education, also studied with the league until prolonged family unit illness sent her habitation.^[7]

The painter Edith Dimock, a student from 1895 to 1899, described her classes at the Art Students League:

In a room innocent of ventilation, the job was to depict Venus (just the caput) and her colleagues. We were not allowed to hitch bodies to the heads——nevertheless. The dead white plaster of Paris was a perfect inducer of centre-strain, and was called "The Antiquarian." 1 was supposed to work from "The Antiquarian" for two years. The advantage of "The Antiquarian" was that all these gods and athletes were such excellent models: there never was the twitch of an fe-bound muscle. Venus never batted her hard-boiled egg eye, and the Discus-thrower never wearied. They were also cheap models and did not accept to be paid union rates.^[eight]

In his official biography, My Adventures as an Illustrator, Norman Rockwell recounts his time studying at the schoolhouse every bit a immature man, providing insight into its functioning in the early on 1900s.

The League's popularity persisted into the 1920s and 1930s under the hand of instructors like painter Thomas Hart Benton, who counted amidst his students there the immature Jackson Pollock and other avant-garde artists who would rise to prominence in the 1940s.

Betwixt 1942 and 1943, many of the League'south students joined the war machine to fight in World State of war 2, and the League'south enrollment decreased from 1,000 to 400, putting it in danger of closing in mid-1943.^[9] In response, five hundred artists donated $15,000, just enough to keep the League from closing.^[10] In the years after Globe War Two, the G.I. Pecker played an important part in the standing history of the League by enabling returning veterans to attend classes.^[xi] The League continued to be a formative influence on innovative artists, being an early on end in the careers of Abstract expressionists, Popular Artists and scores of others including Lee Bontecou, Helen Frankenthaler, Al Held, Eva Hesse, Roy Lichtenstein, Donald Judd, Knox Martin, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist, Cy Twombly and many others vitally active in the art globe.

In 1968, Lisa M. Specht was elected commencement female person president of the League. The League'southward unique importance in the larger art world dwindled somewhat during the 1960s, partially considering of higher academia's emergence equally an important presence in contemporary fine art pedagogy, and partially due to a shift in the art earth towards minimalism, photography, conceptual art, and a more than impersonal and indirect approach to art making.

Equally of 2010^[update], the League continues to attract a broad multifariousness of young artists; and the focus on art made past hand, both figurative and abstruse, remains strong; its continued significance has largely been in the continuation of its original mission – to give access to fine art classes and studio access to all comers, regardless of their ways or technical background.^{[12] [13]}

Other facilities [edit]

From 1906 until 1922, and over again subsequently the end of World War II from 1947 until 1979, the League operated a summertime school of painting at Woodstock, New York. In 1995, the League's facilities expanded to include the Vytlacil campus in Sparkill, New York, named after and based upon a gift of the property and studio of one-time instructor Vaclav Vytlacil.^[14]

Notable instructors and lecturers [edit]

Since its inception, the Fine art Students League has employed notable professional artists as instructors and lecturers. Nearly engagements accept been for a year or two, and some, similar those of sculptor George Grey Barnard, were quite brief.

Others have taught for decades, notably: Frank DuMond and George Bridgman, who taught beefcake for artists and life drawing classes for some 45 years, reportedly to 70,000 students. Bridgman'south successor was Robert Beverly Hale. Other longtime instructors included the painters Frank Mason (DuMond's successor, over 50 years), Kenneth Hayes Miller (forty years) from 1911 until 1951, sculptor Nathaniel Kaz (50 years), Peter Golfinopoulos (over xl years), Knox Martin (over 45 years), Martha Bloom (xxx years) and the sculptors William Zorach (xxx years), and Jose De Creeft, Will Barnet (50 years) from the 1930s to the 1990s, and Bruce Dorfman (over 50 years).

Other well-known artists who take served as instructors include: Lawrence Alloway, Charles Alston, Will Barnet, Robert Beauchamp, George Bellows, Thomas Hart Benton, Isabel Bishop, Arnold Flinch, Louis Bouche, Robert Brackman, George Bridgman, Alexander Stirling Calder, Naomi Andrée Campbell, Robert Cenedella, ^[15]Jean Charlot, William Merritt Chase, Dionisio Cimarelli,^[16] Timothy J. Clark, Walter Appleton Clark, Kenyon Cox, Jose De Creeft, John Steuart Back-scratch, Stuart Davis, Edwin Dickinson, Sidney Dickinson, Frederick Dielman, Harvey Dinnerstein, Arthur Wesley Dow, Frank DuMond, Frank Duveneck, Thomas Eakins, Daniel Chester French, Dagmar Freuchen, Wilhelmina Weber Furlong, Michael Goldberg, Stephen Greene, George Grosz, Molly Guion,^[17] Lena Gurr, Philip Guston, Robert Beverly Hale, Lovell Birge Harrison, Ernest Haskell, Childe Hassam, Robert Henri, Eva Hesse, Charles Hinman, Hans Hofmann, Harry Holtzman, Jamal Igle, Burt Johnson, Wolf Kahn, Morris Kantor, Rockwell Kent, Walt Kuhn, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Gabriel Laderman, Ronnie Landfield, Jacob Lawrence, Hayley Lever, Martin Lewis, George Luks, Paul Manship, Reginald Marsh, Fletcher Martin, Knox Martin, Jan Matulka, Earl Mayan, Mary Beth Mckenzie, William Charles McNulty, Willard Metcalf, Kenneth Hayes Miller, Fred Mitchell, F. Luis Mora, Robert Neffson, Kimon Nicolaïdes, Maxfield Parrish, Jules Pascin, Joseph Pennell, Richard C. Pionk, Larry Poons, Richard Pousette-Dart, Abraham Rattner, Peter Reginato, Frank J. Reilly, Henry Reuterdahl, Boardman Robinson, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Kikuo Saito, Nelson Shanks, William Scharf, Susan Louise Shatter, Walter Shirlaw, John Sloan, Hughie Lee-Smith, Isaac Soyer, Raphael Soyer, Theodoros Stamos, Anita Steckel, Harry Sternberg, Augustus Vincent Tack, George Tooker, John Henry Twachtman, Vaclav Vytlacil, Max Weber, J. Alden Weir, Jerry Weiss, and William Zorach.^{[18] [19]}

Notable alumni [edit]

The school's list of notable alumni includes: Pacita Abad, Harry N. Abrams,^[20] Edwin Tappan Adney, Olga Albizu, Karin von Aroldingen, Ai Weiwei, Gladys Aller, William Anthony, Edmund Archer, Nela Arias-Misson, David Attie, Milton Avery, Elizabeth Gowdy Bakery, Thomas R. Ball (a The states Congressman), Hugo Ballin, Will Barnet, Nancy Hemenway Barton, Saul Bass, C. C. Beall, Romare Bearden, Tony Bennett, Theresa Bernstein, Brother Thomas Bezanson, Thomas Hart Benton, Ilse Bischoff, Isabel Bishop, Dorothy Cake, Leonard Bocour, Harriet Bogart, Abraham Bogdanove, Lee Bontecou, Henry Botkin, Louise Bourgeois, Harry Bowden, Stanley Boxer, Louise Brann, D. Putnam Brinley, James Brooks, Carmen Fifty. Browne, Jennie Augusta Brownscombe, Edith Bry, Dennis Miller Bunker, Jacob Burck, Feliza Bursztyn, Theodore Earl Butler, Paul Cadmus, Alexander Calder, Chris Campbell, John F. Carlson, Kathrin Cawein, Paul Chalfin, Ching Ho Cheng, Minna Citron, Margaret Covey Chisholm, Walter Appleton Clark, Kate Freeman Clark, Henry Ives Cobb, Jr., Claudette Colbert, Willie Cole, John Connell, Russell Cowles, Allyn Cox, Ellis Credle, Richard Five. Culter, Mel Cummin, Frederick Stuart Church building, Joan Danziger, Andrew Dasburg, Charles C. Dawson, Adolf Dehn, Dorothy Dehner, Sidney Dickinson, Burgoyne Diller, Ellen Eagle, Marjorie Eaton, Sir Jacob Epstein, Marisol Escobar, Joe Eula, Philip Evergood, Peter Falk, Frances Farrand Contrivance, Ernest Fiene, Irving Fierstein, Louis Finkelstein, Ethel Fisher, Wilhelmina Weber Furlong, Helen Frankenthaler, Hodé Frankl, Frederick Carl Frieseke, Wanda Gág, Dan Gheno, Charles Dana Gibson, William Glackens, Elias Goldberg, Michael Goldberg, Shirley Goldfarb, Peter Golfinopoulos, Adolph Gottlieb, Blanche Grambs, John D. Graham, Enrique Grau, Nancy Graves, Clement Greenberg, Stephen Greene, Red Grooms, Chaim Gross, Lena Gurr, Bessie Pease Gutmann, Minna Harkavy, Marsden Hartley, Julius Hatofsky, Ethel Hays, Gus Heinze, Al Held, Carmen Herrera, Eva Hesse, Al Hirschfeld, Itshak Holtz, Lorenzo Homar, Winslow Homer, Thomas Hoving, Paul Jenkins, Burt Johnson, Donald Judd, Joan Kahn,^[21] Matsumi Kanemitsu, Alonzo Myron Kimball, Torleif Due south. Knaphus, Belle Kogan, Lee Krasner, Ronnie Landfield, Adelaide Lawson, Arthur Lee, Lucy L'Engle, Alfred Leslie, Roy Lichtenstein, Dorothy Loeb, Tom Loepp, Michael Loew, John Marin, Reginald Marsh, Knox Martin, Donald Martiny, Mercedes Matter, Louisa Matthiasdottir, Peter Max, John Alan Maxwell, Eleanore Mikus, Emil Milan, Lee Miller, David Milne, F. Luis Mora, Walter Tandy Murch, Reuben Nakian, Louise Nevelson, Barnett Newman, Isamu Noguchi, Sassona Norton, Georgia O'Keeffe, Mary Orwen, Roselle Osk, Tom Otterness, Betty Waldo Parish, Clara Weaver Parrish, Betty Parsons, David Partridge,^[22] Phillip Pavia,^[23] Roger Tory Peterson, Bert Geer Phillips, I. Rice Pereira, ^[24]Alain J. Picard, Jackson Pollock, Fairfield Porter, Edith Mitchill Prellwitz, Henry Prellwitz, Robert Rauschenberg, Man Ray, Charles G. Relyea, Frederic Remington, Priscilla Roberts, Norman Rockwell, Esther Rolick, Louise Emerson Ronnebeck, Herman Rose, Leonard Rosenfeld, James Rosenquist, Sanford Ross, Mark Rothko, Glen Rounds, Luis Alvarez Roure, Morgan Russell, Abbey Ryan,^[25] Sam Savitt, Concetta Scaravaglione, Louis Schanker, Mary Schepisi, Katherine Schmidt, Emily Maria Scott, Ethel Schwabacher, Joan Semmel, Maurice Sendak, Ben Shahn, Nelson Shanks, Nat Mayer Shapiro, Henrietta Shore, Jessamine Shumate, David Smith, Tony Smith, Vincent D. Smith Robert Smithson, Louise Hammond Willis Snead, Armstrong Sperry, Otto Stark, William Starkweather, Frank Stella, Joseph Stella, Inga Stephens Pratt Clark, Harry Sternberg, Clyfford Withal, Soichi Sunami, Katharine Lamb Tait, Minerva Teichert, Val Telberg, Patty Prather Thum, George Tooker, Kim Tschang-yeul, Wen-Ying Tsai, Marija Rima Tūbelaitė, Luce Turnier, Cy Twombly, Jack Tworkov, Edward Charles Volkert, Emmett Watson, Nan Watson, Alonzo C. Webb, Sybilla Mittell Weber Davyd Whaley, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, Adolph Alexander Weinman, J. Alden Weir, Jerry Weiss, Stow Wengenroth, Pennerton West, Anita Willets-Burnham, Ellen Axson Wilson, Gahan Wilson, Louise Waterman Wise, Sarah A. Worden, Alice Morgan Wright, Russel Wright, Art Immature, Philip Zuchman, and Iván Zulueta.^{[26] [18] [19]}

See also [edit]

• National Academy of Design
• Guild of American Artists
• X American Painters
• List of fine art schools
• Atelier Method

References [edit]

1. ^ "LINEA". Asllinea.org. Retrieved 2013-07-23 .
2. ^ Cotter, Holland (2005-09-09). "CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK - A Schoolhouse'south Colorful Patina - NYTimes.com". New York Times . Retrieved 2013-07-23 .
3. ^ "Fine art Students League". The Art Story.
4. ^ Christopher Gray (2003-10-05). "Streetscapes/Art Students League at 215 West 57th Street; An 1892 Limestone-Fronted Edifice That Endures". The New York Times . Retrieved 2013-07-23 .
5. ^ "The American Fine Arts Society" (PDF). New York Metropolis Landmarks Preservation Commission. December 10, 1968. Retrieved 24 June 2016.
6. ^ Clint Weber, Sr. (xix July 2012). The Treasured Drove of Gilded Eye Farm: A Biography of Wilhelmina Weber Furlong. Weber Furlong Collection. In the foreword by Professor Emeritus James One thousand. Kettlewell: Harvard, Skidmore College, Curator The Hyde Collection. ISBN978-0-9851601-0-4 . Retrieved 23 July 2013.
7. ^ Brent Wilson; Harlan Hoffa; Pennsylvania State University. Schoolhouse of Visual Arts; National Fine art Teaching Association (1987). The history of fine art teaching: proceedings from the Penn Land Conference. National Art Education Clan.
8. ^ Marian Wardle. American Women Modernists: The Legacy of Robert Henri, 1910-1945. Rutgers University Press; 2005. ISBN 978-0-8135-3684-2. p. 105.
9. ^ "Fine art Students' League Lacks Funds, May End: Nation's Oldest Contained Art Schoolhouse Lost 600 Pupils to Military". New York Herald Tribune. 1942-02-09. p. 17. Retrieved 2020-12-01 – via ProQuest.
10. ^ "Art Students League Saved by Contributions: Artists Donate 15,000 to Avert Endmost in September". New York Herald Tribune. 1942-06-25. p. 17. Retrieved 2020-12-01 – via ProQuest.
11. ^ "Staying Power". July 9, 2015.
12. ^ Hoory, Leeron (July four, 2016). "The Improbable History Of NYC'south Revolutionary Art School, The Fine art Students League". Gothamist.
13. ^ "History". The Fine art Students League. Retrieved 2013-07-23 .
14. ^ "Residency". Theartstudentsleague.org. Archived from the original on 2010-09-xiii. Retrieved 2013-07-23 .
15. ^ "The Fine art Students League - Instructors". theartstudentsleague.org . Retrieved 25 Jan 2015.
16. ^ "Dionisio Cimarelli".
17. ^ "DOROTHY GAY JUERGENS". Larchmont Gazette. 2007. Retrieved four September 2020.
18. ^ ^{a b} Prominent former members of the Art Students League, Art Students League website. Retrieved online, December 26, 2011
19. ^ ^{a b} "Instructors and Lecturers - By & Present". The Fine art Students League. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2013-07-23 .
20. ^ Athenaeum of American Art, Smithsonian Establishment. Oral history interview with Harry N. Abrams, 1972 March xiv. [transcript thirteen pp.] [Accessed Sept. xxx, 2020]
21. ^ Glickman, Anne S. Joan Kahn; Apr 13, 1914–1994. Jewish Women'due south Archive. Retrieved February 14, 2022.
22. ^ Slade prints of the 1950s : Richard Hamilton, Stanley Jones and Bartolomeu dos Santos. London: University College London. 2005. p. 55. ISBN1-904800-06-8.
23. ^ Sisario, Ben (2005-04-15). "Arts > Art & Design > Philip Pavia, 94, an Avant-Garde Sculptor, Is Dead". The New York Times . Retrieved 2013-07-23 .
24. ^ "The Guggenheim Museums and Foundation". The Guggenheim Museums and Foundation.
25. ^ Life Later the League, compiled by Julia Montepagani Archived March 4, 2016, at the Wayback Machine, Lines from the League, Student and Alumni Newsletter, Winter 2011-2012
26. ^ "Prominent Former Students ofThe Art Students League of New York".

Further reading [edit]

• McElhinney James L: Art Students League of New York on Painting: Lessons and Meditations on Mediums, Styles, and Methods, 2015.

External links [edit]

• Fine art Students League of New York
• "Brief History of The League's Early Years"
• Linea
• PBS American Masters documentation including some notable alumni
• Information on the ASL at the Traditional Fine Arts Organization web site, retrieved December 14, 2007
• "Linea, Journal of the Fine art Students League of New York" available for download in PDF form; four issues per year (free)
• "On the Front Lines: War machine Veterans at The Art Students League of New York"
• Art Students League records, 1875-1955 from the Smithsonian Archives of American Fine art

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