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

Although artists may study full-time, there have never been whatever degree programs or grades, and this breezy mental attitude pervades the culture of the school. From the 19th century to the present, the League has counted among its attendees and instructors many historically important artists, and contributed to numerous influential schools and movements in the fine art world.

The League likewise maintains a significant permanent collection of student and kinesthesia work, and publishes an online journal of writing on art-related topics, called LINEA. The journal's proper noun refers to the school'due south 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 not let a twenty-four hours pass without at least drawing a line to practice his art.^[1]

History [edit]

Founded in 1875, the League's creation came nearly in response to both an anticipated gap in the program of the National Academy of Blueprint'due south plan of classes for that yr, and to longer-term desires for more variety and flexibility in education for artists. The breakaway group of students included many women, and was originally housed in rented rooms at 16th Street and 5th Avenue.^{[2] [three]}

When the Academy resumed a more typical—but liberalized—program in 1877, there was some feeling that the League had served its purpose, merely its students voted to continue its program, and it was incorporated the following yr. 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 Due west 57th Street, synthetic equally their joint headquarters, has continued to house the League since 1892.^[4] Designed in the French Renaissance manner by ane of the founders of the AFAS, architect Henry Hardenbergh (in collaboration with Westward.C. Hunting & J.C. Jacobsen), the building 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 study and work at the League many of them taking on key roles. Amidst them were Wilhelmina Weber Furlong and her hubby Thomas Furlong. The avant-garde couple served the league in executive and administrative roles and as pupil members throughout the American modernism move.^[6] Alice Van Vechten Brown, who would afterwards develop some of the outset art programs in American higher teaching, besides studied with the league until prolonged family illness sent her dwelling.^[7]

The painter Edith Dimock, a pupil 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 head) and her colleagues. We were not allowed to hitch bodies to the heads——yet. The dead white plaster of Paris was a perfect inducer of eye-strain, and was called "The Antique." One was supposed to work from "The Antique" for ii years. The reward of "The Antique" was that all these gods and athletes were such excellent models: there never was the twitch of an atomic number 26-bound muscle. Venus never batted her hard-boiled egg center, and the Discus-thrower never exhausted. They were likewise cheap models and did not have to be paid union rates.^[8]

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

The League's popularity persisted into the 1920s and 1930s under the paw of instructors similar painter Thomas Hart Benton, who counted among his students there the young Jackson Pollock and other avant-garde artists who would ascent to prominence in the 1940s.

Between 1942 and 1943, many of the League's students joined the military to fight in World 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, 5 hundred artists donated $15,000, simply enough to go along the League from closing.^[10] In the years afterward Earth War II, the G.I. Nib played an important role in the continuing history of the League by enabling returning veterans to attend classes.^[11] The League continued to be a formative influence on innovative artists, being an early stop in the careers of Abstruse expressionists, Pop 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 fine art world.

In 1968, Lisa Thousand. Specht was elected start female president of the League. The League's unique importance in the larger art world dwindled somewhat during the 1960s, partially because of college academia'south emergence equally an important presence in contemporary art education, and partially due to a shift in the art world towards minimalism, photography, conceptual fine art, and a more impersonal and indirect approach to art making.

As of 2010^[update], the League continues to attract a wide variety of young artists; and the focus on art made by hand, both figurative and abstract, remains potent; its connected significance has largely been in the continuation of its original mission – to requite admission to fine art classes and studio admission to all comers, regardless of their ways or technical background.^{[12] [13]}

Other facilities [edit]

From 1906 until 1922, and once again subsequently the end of World War 2 from 1947 until 1979, the League operated a summer school of painting at Woodstock, New York. In 1995, the League'due south facilities expanded to include the Vytlacil campus in Sparkill, New York, named after and based upon a gift of the property and studio of former instructor Vaclav Vytlacil.^[14]

Notable instructors and lecturers [edit]

Since its inception, the Art Students League has employed notable professional person artists equally instructors and lecturers. Most engagements accept been for a year or two, and some, like those of sculptor George Grey Barnard, were quite brief.

Others accept taught for decades, notably: Frank DuMond and George Bridgman, who taught anatomy for artists and life cartoon classes for some 45 years, reportedly to lxx,000 students. Bridgman's successor was Robert Beverly Hale. Other longtime instructors included the painters Frank Mason (DuMond's successor, over 50 years), Kenneth Hayes Miller (40 years) from 1911 until 1951, sculptor Nathaniel Kaz (50 years), Peter Golfinopoulos (over 40 years), Knox Martin (over 45 years), Martha Bloom (xxx years) and the sculptors William Zorach (30 years), and Jose De Creeft, Volition Barnet (50 years) from the 1930s to the 1990s, and Bruce Dorfman (over 50 years).

Other well-known artists who have served equally instructors include: Lawrence Alloway, Charles Alston, Will Barnet, Robert Beauchamp, George Bellows, Thomas Hart Benton, Isabel Bishop, Arnold Blanch, 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 Curry, 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 listing of notable alumni includes: Pacita Abad, Harry N. Abrams,^[xx] 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. Brawl (a United 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 Block, Leonard Bocour, Harriet Bogart, Abraham Bogdanove, Lee Bontecou, Henry Botkin, Louise Bourgeois, Harry Bowden, Stanley Boxer, Louise Brann, D. Putnam Brinley, James Brooks, Carmen L. 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 V. Culter, Mel Cummin, Frederick Stuart Church, 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 Dodge, 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 S. 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 Thou. Relyea, Frederic Remington, Priscilla Roberts, Norman Rockwell, Esther Rolick, Louise Emerson Ronnebeck, Herman Rose, Leonard Rosenfeld, James Rosenquist, Sanford Ross, Marker 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 However, 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 Young, Philip Zuchman, and Iván Zulueta.^{[26] [eighteen] [xix]}

See also [edit]

• National Academy of Design
• Club of American Artists
• Ten American Painters
• List of art schools
• Atelier Method

References [edit]

1. ^ "LINEA". Asllinea.org. Retrieved 2013-07-23 .
2. ^ Cotter, Holland (2005-09-09). "CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK - A School's Colorful Patina - NYTimes.com". New York Times . Retrieved 2013-07-23 .
3. ^ "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 Building That Endures". The New York Times . Retrieved 2013-07-23 .
5. ^ "The American Fine Arts Society" (PDF). New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. December x, 1968. Retrieved 24 June 2016.
6. ^ Clint Weber, Sr. (19 July 2012). The Treasured Collection of Golden Heart Subcontract: A Biography of Wilhelmina Weber Furlong. Weber Furlong Collection. In the foreword by Professor Emeritus James Chiliad. Kettlewell: Harvard, Skidmore College, Curator The Hyde Drove. ISBN978-0-9851601-0-4 . Retrieved 23 July 2013.
7. ^ Brent Wilson; Harlan Hoffa; Pennsylvania State University. School of Visual Arts; National Art Teaching Association (1987). The history of fine art education: proceedings from the Penn State Conference. National Art Education Association.
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. ^ "Art Students' League Lacks Funds, May End: Nation'due south Oldest Independent Art School 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 fifteen,000 to Avert Closing in September". New York Herald Tribune. 1942-06-25. p. 17. Retrieved 2020-12-01 – via ProQuest.
11. ^ "Staying Ability". July nine, 2015.
12. ^ Hoory, Leeron (July iv, 2016). "The Improbable History Of NYC's Revolutionary Art School, The Art Students League". Gothamist.
13. ^ "History". The Art Students League. Retrieved 2013-07-23 .
14. ^ "Residency". Theartstudentsleague.org. Archived from the original on 2010-09-13. Retrieved 2013-07-23 .
15. ^ "The Art Students League - Instructors". theartstudentsleague.org . Retrieved 25 Jan 2015.
16. ^ "Dionisio Cimarelli".
17. ^ "DOROTHY GAY JUERGENS". Larchmont Gazette. 2007. Retrieved iv September 2020.
18. ^ ^{a b} Prominent one-time members of the Art Students League, Art Students League website. Retrieved online, December 26, 2011
19. ^ ^{a b} "Instructors and Lecturers - By & Present". The Art Students League. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2013-07-23 .
20. ^ Athenaeum of American Fine art, Smithsonian Establishment. Oral history interview with Harry North. Abrams, 1972 March xiv. [transcript 13 pp.] [Accessed Sept. 30, 2020]
21. ^ Glickman, Anne S. Joan Kahn; April 13, 1914–1994. Jewish Women's Annal. 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. ISBNi-904800-06-8.
23. ^ Sisario, Ben (2005-04-15). "Arts > Art & Pattern > 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 After the League, compiled by Julia Montepagani Archived March four, 2016, at the Wayback Machine, Lines from the League, Pupil and Alumni Newsletter, Winter 2011-2012
26. ^ "Prominent Former Students ofThe Fine 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]

• 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 Dec 14, 2007
• "Linea, Journal of the Art Students League of New York" available for download in PDF grade; four problems per year (free)
• "On the Front end Lines: Armed forces Veterans at The Art Students League of New York"
• Art Students League records, 1875-1955 from the Smithsonian Archives of American Art

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