At the League, History

Sarah Taylor Adams: Early Deaf Artist at the Art Student League of New York

February 24, 2021 0 33

The Art Students League of New York played a vital role in Deaf artist Sarah Taylor Adams’ desire to challenge ableist discrimination and to grow as an artist.

Interviews

Artist Snapshot: Sherry Camhy

February 23, 2021 0 32

As a young child, I could not be stopped from drawing with anything, on anything, all of the time. Nothing has changed that.

Interviews

Artist Snapshot: Michael Pellettieri

February 16, 2021 0 35

Most of my images are sparked by vistas from my studio or home and also from iconic objects that are in my studio.

Art, Reviews

The Communion of Skill and Conscience

February 10, 2021 0 101

Kollwitz’s art was both a response to the suffering of others and a processing of personal experience. For Kollwitz, character born of hardship was indistinguishable from—lo, was the necessary source of—beauty.

Art, At the League

The Portrait Ralph by Diego Catalán Amilivia

February 7, 2021 0 147

As all portrait artists know, there is something solemnly ceremonious about the full-profile position. We do not make eye contact—that being somehow beneath the authority of the subject—just as the set mouth seems to be not just momentarily, but eternally, silent.

Art, At the League

“I’ve Been a Person Other People Always Wanted to Paint or Photograph.”

February 1, 2021 0 114

The story and relationship behind two of the best-known works in the Art Students League of New York’s permanent collection.

The League at Large

Art Students League Instructor News

January 4, 2021 0 101

Exhibitions, awards, publications, and more

At the League

Lucia Fairchild Fuller’s Life of Privilege and Hardship

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As Lucia Fairchild sat drawing in class, she must have been flush with the good fortune of her talent, her friendship with John Singer Sargent, and all the promise her future held.

Tips & Advice

From Zero to Zoom

December 22, 2020 0 248

Zoom offers a different kind of learning experience, a natural fit for lectures, demonstrations, or art history. But what about for studio workshops? 

At the League

The Metropolitan Mindset of New Yorker Cartoonist Barbara Shermund

December 15, 2020 0 159

Shermund’s cartoons are about human nature, relationships, youth and age, and, more often than not, poke fun at the very metropolitan and highbrow people to whom The New Yorker was marketed.

At the League

Quarantined II

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Artists from James Little’s class, “Non-Objective Painting, Color and Design,” forge ahead with their work over ZOOM.

At the League

Painting Is a Way of Life: Robert Philipp’s Legacy

December 14, 2020 0 230

Robert Philipp was—and this may be a defining characteristic of many League instructors—an iconoclastic traditionalist, well enough versed in the conventions of art to take them as a point of departure.