It’s one thing to draw in an environment of camaraderie that supplies both subjects and pedagogy, and quite another to chart one’s course in solitude.
There are 120 drawings, prints, and sculptures in MoMA’s Käthe Kollwitz exhibition, and every piece feels essential.
A new acquisition to the Art Students League’s permanent 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.
In Christopher Gallego’s drawings, it is as if you are underwater, and all of the usual sounds, shuffles, and animation of life goes silent, and you find yourself in this sensorially pared-down but visually heightened world.
A comparison of three Bryson Burroughs drawings in the Art Students League’s collection reveal how Parisian training transformed his technique.
Lessons from a figure drawing by Edmund F. Ward, a student of George B. Bridgman.
As a young child, I could not be stopped from drawing with anything, on anything, all of the time. Nothing has changed that.
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.
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.