The League had been on the brink of closure due to rapidly declining enrollments, and then suddenly found itself not only saved but transformed by an influx of eager GIs.
On the Front Lines: Military Veterans at the Art Students League of New York has opened in its second venue, the UB Anderson Gallery, in Buffalo, NY.
“Yasuo Kuniyoshi was always very concerned about layers of everything consistent with layers of meaning between the ostensible subject matter of the painting and what might be the actual content.”
The G.I. Bill created the circumstances that provoked searching questions about where and how best to educate artists.
What accounts for an institution’s longevity? In New York City, real estate is key. Most histories of the Art Students League credit disaffected art students with the school’s founding, its democratic government, and communal character. This is fitting. Less recognized, however, is the role non-artists played in buying prime lots along Fifty-seventh Street and erecting a building…