Artist and activist Alice Standish Buell spent her life lifting up women—through social work, art, and unwavering community engagement.
The most trenchant critique of Mary Cassatt’s work came from no less a wit than her erstwhile friend and mentor, Edgar Degas.
The Art Students League served as a key training ground in miniature painting, where students acquired skills particular to watercolor painting on ivory, as well as a solid grounding in figural representation, so evident in drawings in the school’s collection.
The women artists who led a twentieth-century revival in miniature painting
Art Students League History, History
“Women Picturing Women” Features Alumnae of the Art Students League of New York
Mar 29, 2021, 2:30 PM
An exhibition exploring works by women depicting women in portraits and domestic scenes, home-centered settings, and idyllic, invented landscapes.
Art Students League History, At the League
The Life and Art of Anne Eisner: An American Artist between Cultures
Mar 11, 2021, 9:17 AM
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
Feb 24, 2021, 3:38 AM
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.
At the League
If There Have Always Been Great Women Artists, Where Do We Find Them?
Jan 28, 2020, 2:42 PM
A review of the exhibition Postwar Women: They Were Always Here, curated by William Corwin, that was on view in the Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery this past fall