Art Students League History, History

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

March 29, 2021 0 1654

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 1399

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 2257

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 2010

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 2068

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 1363

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 1935

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 1985

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 3026

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 0 997

Exhibitions, awards, publications, and more

At the League

Lucia Fairchild Fuller’s Life of Privilege and Hardship

0 1715

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 1524

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