The women artists who led a twentieth-century revival in miniature painting
How a marble bust from the Italian Renaissance captivated artists, shaped artistic pedagogy, and emerged as a popular domestic decoration.
The artist’s trust has donated two late works to the Art Students League’s collection.
At the League
Celebrating the Art Students League’s 2022 Grant & Scholarship Recipients
Aug 5, 2022, 1:42 AM
A gallery of fifty-four award-winning submissions.
Stories from the Collection
The Legacy of George B. Bridgman in the Work of His Students
Jul 7, 2022, 4:01 PM
Seeing the names attached to these drawings, one’s imagination may be set to wondering what happened to these individuals who were so full of promise.
In Christopher Gallego’s drawings, it is as if you are underwater, and all of the usual sounds, shuffles, and animation of life goes silent, and you find yourself in this sensorially pared-down but visually heightened world.
A comparison of three Bryson Burroughs drawings in the Art Students League’s collection reveal how Parisian training transformed his technique.
The world I was familiar with has been drastically altered by the invisible virus, and I have great difficulty navigating this unfamiliar terrain.
For painting landscapes en plein air, Frank Vincent DuMond taught his students a method of pre-mixing color strings in stepped values, moving from light to the dark value by creating color “notes” analogous to musical keys.
Edwin Dickinson’s paintings are swimming in the ocean of visual sensations and have just barely started to crawl up onto the land and become “things” that the brain can identify, and therefore, exert hegemony over.