Art, At the League

“I’ve Been a Person Other People Always Wanted to Paint or Photograph.”

February 1, 2021 0 288

The story and relationship behind 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 0 237

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.

Tips & Advice

From Zero to Zoom

December 22, 2020 0 389

Zoom offers a different kind of learning experience, a natural fit for lectures, demonstrations, or art history. But what about for studio workshops? 

At the League

The Metropolitan Mindset of New Yorker Cartoonist Barbara Shermund

December 15, 2020 0 336

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.

At the League

Quarantined II

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Artists from James Little’s class, “Non-Objective Painting, Color and Design,” forge ahead with their work over ZOOM.

At the League

Painting Is a Way of Life: Robert Philipp’s Legacy

December 14, 2020 0 384

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.

At the League

A Master Instructor of Artistic Anatomy: George B. Bridgman

October 30, 2020 0 504

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?

Interviews

Artist Snapshot: Marshall Jones

October 27, 2020 0 347

Art in general isn’t nearly as fun or powerful in this age. You could say there’s a positive side to all the access we have to art, as well as the exposure, as artists, we can get outside of the traditional structures. But I wonder if it’s worth what we gave up. Too much art exposure can bore a person. You can also become impervious to the effects that art can have on us.

ASL Alumni, At the League

How the Art Students League Shaped the Life of Twentieth-Century Artist Marion Greenwood

October 15, 2020 0 438

Formative experiences with Art Students League instructors shaped the way Marion Greenwood viewed and painted the world around her.

Reviews

In London, a Question of Pedagogy

October 12, 2020 0 287

An exhibition at the Royal Academy of Art asks, Does great art begin with studying nature, or studying the great art of the past?

Interviews

Artist Snapshot: Sylvie Covey

September 25, 2020 0 625

For a very long time I thought art was all about esthetics, beauty, grace. I did not look at other dimensions, such as distortions, unbalance, pain, darkness. Now I try to reach both, very much like in nature, there is life and death.