The G.I. Bill created the circumstances that provoked searching questions about where and how best to educate artists.
Nearly 4,000 men and women veterans of the US military have studied or taught at the Art Students League of New York. On June 19, On the Front Lines opens to explore work by those veterans who studied at the league after the Second World War through the present day.
The Art Students League of New York is inextricably connected to the history of Old Lyme, Connecticut.
Deane’s great skill was his ability to transcribe human forms from memory…. His owlish face was as quick to slyly smile as it was to cloud over, for he was at once one of the most brilliant and emotionally kinetic people I’ve ever known.
Mid-nineteenth-century Grand Rapids, Michigan offered limited opportunities for education. In an illustration for Harper’s Weekly (Fig. 1), Frederick Stuart Church recalled his early school days in a Grand Rapids one room schoolhouse. Consumed by a desire to draw, young Fred occupied himself drawing with pencil on the blank pages of his school texts and on…
What accounts for an institution’s longevity? In New York City, real estate is key. Most histories of the Art Students League credit disaffected art students with the school’s founding, its democratic government, and communal character. This is fitting. Less recognized, however, is the role non-artists played in buying prime lots along Fifty-seventh Street and erecting a building…