Art, At the League
“I’ve Been a Person Other People Always Wanted to Paint or Photograph.”
Feb 1, 2021, 11:00 AM
The story and relationship behind two of the best-known works in the Art Students League of New York’s permanent collection.
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.
At the League
The Metropolitan Mindset of New Yorker Cartoonist Barbara Shermund
Dec 15, 2020, 11:40 AM
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.
Artists from James Little’s class, “Non-Objective Painting, Color and Design,” forge ahead with their work over ZOOM.
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.
George B. Bridgman was the preeminent instructor of figure drawing in this country during the first half of the twentieth century and is credited with having taught close to 70,000 students, from illustrators to the avant-garde. What makes his lessons so enduring?
An exhibition of works created in the pandemic that testify to the indomitable nature of artists and to art’s ability to communicate a spectrum of emotion that may be difficult to convey in any other modality.
Photographs and stories of the artists who carry on their legacy.
Artists from James Little’s class kept painting after New York shut down.
Notable work from students in the classes of Janet A. Cook, Christopher Gallego, Leonid Gervits, Oscar Garcia, and Marshall Jones.