Interviews

Artist Snapshot: Dominique Medici

March 30, 2021 0 3580

The past ten years have been incredibly transformative physically, mentally, and spiritually. There is real richness there, something magical and beautiful, which I’m not sure yet how to translate into art.  I am looking forward to creating a body of work that comes from my core. I can feel the stirring and rumbling within, it is coming!

Art Students League History, History

“Women Picturing Women” Features Alumnae of the Art Students League of New York

March 29, 2021 0 5187

An exhibition exploring works by women depicting women in portraits and domestic scenes, home-centered settings, and idyllic, invented landscapes.

Interviews

Artist Snapshot: Ricardo José Mujica

March 18, 2021 0 2856

I love analyzing the beauty of the human machine.

Art Students League History, At the League

The Life and Art of Anne Eisner: An American Artist between Cultures

March 11, 2021 0 6204

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

February 24, 2021 0 4788

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.

Interviews

Artist Snapshot: Sherry Camhy

February 23, 2021 0 4178

As a young child, I could not be stopped from drawing with anything, on anything, all of the time. Nothing has changed that.

Interviews

Artist Snapshot: Michael Pellettieri

February 16, 2021 0 3112

Most of my images are sparked by vistas from my studio or home and also from iconic objects that are in my studio.

Art, Reviews

The Communion of Skill and Conscience

February 10, 2021 0 5741

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.

Stories from the Collection

The Portrait “Ralph” by Diego Catalán Amilivia

February 7, 2021 0 4056

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.”

February 1, 2021 0 8958

The relationship between two of the best-known works in the Art Students League of New York’s permanent collection.

The League at Large

Art Students League Instructor News

January 4, 2021 0 1587

Exhibitions, awards, publications, and more

At the League

Lucia Fairchild Fuller’s Life of Privilege and Hardship

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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.