Art Students League of New York

The Art Students League of New York is an art school founded in 1875.

Its creation came in response to both an anticipated gap in the program of the National Academy of Design's program of classes for that year, and longer-term desires for more variety and flexibility in education for artists.

When the Academy resumed a more typical, but liberalized, program, in 1877, there was some sentiment that the League had served its purpose, but its students voted to continue its program. It was incorporated in 1878. The American Fine Arts Building at 215 West 57th Street housed the group since 1892. From 1906 until 1922, and again after the end of World War II from 1947 until 1979, the League operated a summer school of painting at Woodstock, New York.

As of 2007, the League remains an important force in New York City art life.

Notable instructors and lecturers

Since its inception, the Art Students League has employed renowned professional artists as instructors and lecturers, including: William Merritt Chase, Thomas Eakins, John Sloan, Robert Henri, George Bellows, Kenyon Cox, Childe Hassam, John Henry Twachtman, J. Alden Weir, Alexander Stirling Calder, Willard Metcalf, Stuart Davis, Jules Pascin, John Steuart Curry, Raphael Soyer, Isaac Soyer, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Augustus Vincent Tack, Abraham Rattner, Paul Manship, Reginald Marsh, George Tooker, George Luks, Robert Beverly Hale, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Isabel Bishop, Harry Sternberg, Charles Alston, Max Weber, Jacob Lawrence, George Grosz, Edwin Dickinson, Maxfield Parrish, Rockwell Kent, Thomas Hart Benton, William Zorach, Morris Kantor, Walt Kuhn, Boardman Robinson, Hans Hofmann, Vaclav Vytlacil, Philip Guston, Theodoros Stamos, Herman Cherry, Richard Pousette-Dart, Stephen Greene, Will Barnet, Michael Goldberg, Larry Poons, Peter Reginato, Ronnie Landfield, Charles Hinman, Eva Hesse, Wolf Kahn, Lawrence Alloway, Gabriel Laderman, Harvey Dinnerstein, Mary Beth Mckenzie, William C. McNulty, Hugo Bastidas and Knox Martin to name a few.

Notable alumni

The school's list of renowned alumni includes: Frederic Remington, Winslow Homer, Edward Charles Volkert, William Glackens, Allyn Cox, Marsden Hartley, Andrew Michael Dasburg, Morgan Russell, Sir Jacob Epstein, David Smith, Claudette Colbert, Charles Dana Gibson, Dorothy Dehner, Tony Smith, Alexander Calder, Isamu Noguchi, Georgia O’Keeffe, Russel Wright, Isabel Bishop, Philip Evergood, Paul Cadmus, Elias Goldberg, George Tooker, Man Ray, Harry Sternberg, Norman Rockwell, Chaim Gross, Louise Nevelson, John D. Graham, Louise Bourgeois, Burgoyne Diller, Milton Avery, Mark Rothko, Adolph Gottlieb, Clyfford Still, Jack Tworkov, Barnett Newman, John Marin, Ben Shahn, Ray Osrin, Louis Schanker, Albert Kotin, Lee Krasner, Jackson Pollock, Helen Frankenthaler, Robert Rauschenberg, Knox Martin, Cy Twombly, Michael Goldberg, Stanley Boxer, Frank Stella, Alfred Leslie, Peter Busa, Al Held, James Rosenquist, Roy Lichtenstein, Eva Hesse, Lee Bontecou, Robert Smithson, Reuben Nakian, Donald Judd, Mercedes Matter, Marisol Escobar, Red Grooms, James Brooks, Ronnie Landfield, I. Rice Pereira, Fairfield Porter, Louisa Matthiasdottir, Nancy Graves, Tom Otterness, Paul Jenkins, Joseph Stella, Ethel Schwabacher, Betty Parsons, Clement Greenberg, Leonard Bocour, Stow Wengenroth, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, Will Barnet, Al Hirschfeld, Maurice Sendak, Romare Bearden, Otto Stark, Nelson Shanks, Wendy Penney, Thomas Lamb, Louis Finkelstein, Walter Tandy Murch, Edwin Tappan Adney, Nat Mayer Shapiro, Jozef C. Mazur, John Alan Maxwell, Tadashi Asoma, Philip Pavia, Nell Blaine, Henry McBride, Brother Thomas Bezanson, and many others.

See also

• National Academy of Design
• Society of American Artists
• Ten American Painters
• List of art schools
• art school
• Robert Brackman
• John Philip Falter
• Elaine Hamilton
• Ben Long
• Frank Mason
• Knox Martin
• Frederick Stuart Church

External links

• Art Students League of New York
• "Brief History of The League's Early Years"
• PBS American Masters documentation which includes alums
• [1], retrieved December 14, 2007
• Knox Martin Website
• Knox Martin YouTube Video
• Art Students League Alum Ben Long
• Art Students League Alum Louis Schanker