These Japanese artists were caught between classical traditions, the dictates of propaganda, Japan’s defeat, and overwhelming confrontations with suffering and death.
The guidelines provided by Robert Smithson’s instructors at the Art Students League of New York, virtually the only formal art education he received, were essential to his land art.
B.Z. Sacks owned a gallery in the subway arcade at 42nd Street and Sixth Avenue in 1949. It was called the Tribune Subway Gallery. She was twenty-five years old.
An American expatriate living in Paris during the 1920s, Eugene McCown painted men in various stages of intimacy, though the homoerotic charge of his paintings was never mentioned by critics.
Art Students League History, History
“Women Picturing Women” Features Alumnae of the Art Students League of New York
Mar 29, 2021, 2:30 PM
An exhibition exploring works by women depicting women in portraits and domestic scenes, home-centered settings, and idyllic, invented landscapes.
Art Students League History, At the League
The Life and Art of Anne Eisner: An American Artist between Cultures
Mar 11, 2021, 9:17 AM
Anne Eisner came of age in the 1930s and 1940s, during the struggle among artists and intellectuals to combat fascism and create a better world. After studying at the Art Students League, she left a successful career as a painter to follow Patrick Putnam, with whom she had fallen passionately in love, to Epulu, a multicultural community in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Art Students League History
How the Art Students League Shaped the Life of Twentieth-Century Artist Marion Greenwood
Oct 15, 2020, 5:09 PM
Formative experiences with Art Students League instructors shaped the way Marion Greenwood viewed and painted the world around her.
Chellis Baird found a kindred spirit in the great iconoclastic sculptor Louise Nevelson.
The question that seems to be posed in this exhibition is whether the Lyme Art Colony’s interest in landscape, light, and color can be enjoyed at face value, or is complicit in whitewashing the area’s history.
Art Students League History
Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925–1945
May 28, 2020, 1:17 PM
The Art Students League provided fertile ground for the Mexican remake of American art.