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.
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.
At the League, History
Sarah Taylor Adams: Early Deaf Artist at the Art Student League of New York
Feb 24, 2021, 3:38 AM
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.
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.
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.
Stories from the Collection
“I’ve Been a Person Other People Always Wanted to Paint or Photograph.”
Feb 1, 2021, 11:00 AM
The relationship between two of the best-known works in the Art Students League of New York’s permanent collection.