Ronald Sherr’s “Taunja, Twice,” a recently accessioned work in the Art Students League’s permanent collection, captures an artistic experiment in observation and a lasting connection with his model, Taunja.
My father’s portrait expresses that affection for Nicolaides, for the League, and for this period when they felt inspired and excited about their lives as young artists.
A new acquisition to the Art Students League’s permanent collection.
The Art Students League served as a key training ground in miniature painting, where students acquired skills particular to watercolor painting on ivory, as well as a solid grounding in figural representation, so evident in drawings in the school’s collection.
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.
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.
A comparison of three Bryson Burroughs drawings in the Art Students League’s collection reveal how Parisian training transformed his technique.
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.