Art Students League of New York

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The Art Students League of New York is an art school founded in 1875.

Its creation came in response to both an anticipated gap in the program of the National Academy of Design's program of classes for that year, and longer-term desires for more variety and flexibility in education for artists.

When the Academy resumed a more typical, but liberalized, program, in 1877, there was some sentiment that the League had served its purpose, but its students voted to continue its program. It was incorporated in 1878. The American Fine Arts Building at 215 West 57th Street housed the group. From 1906 until 1922, and again after the end of World War II from 1947 until 1979, the League operated a summer school of painting at Woodstock, New York.

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[edit] Notable instructors and lecturers

Since its inception, the Art Students League has employed renowned professional artists as instructors and lecturers, including: William Merritt Chase, Thomas Eakins, John Sloan, Robert Henri, George Bellows, Childe Hassam, Alexander Stirling Calder, Stuart Davis, Jules Pascin, John Steuart Curry, Raphael Soyer, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Augustus Vincent Tack, Abraham Rattner, Paul Manship, Reginald Marsh (artist), George Tooker, George Luks, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Isabel Bishop, Harry Sternberg, Charles Alston, Max Weber, Jacob Lawrence, George Grosz, Edwin Dickinson, Maxfield Parrish, Rockwell Kent, Thomas Hart Benton (painter), William Zorach, Morris Kantor, Walt Kuhn, Boardman Robinson, Hans Hofmann, Vaclav Vytlacil, Philip Guston, Theodoros Stamos, Herman Cherry, Richard Pousette-Dart, Stephen Greene, Will Barnet, Michael Goldberg, Larry Poons, Peter Reginato, Ronnie Landfield, Charles Hinman, Eva Hesse, Wolf Kahn, Lawrence Alloway, Gabriel Laderman, Harvey Dinnerstein, Mary Beth Mckenzie, and Knox Martin to name a few.

[edit] Notable alumni

The school's list of renowned alumni includes: Frederic Remington, Winslow Homer, William Glackens, Marsden Hartley, Sir Jacob Epstein, David Smith (sculptor), Dorothy Dehner, Tony Smith (sculptor), Alexander Calder, Isamu Noguchi, Georgia O’Keeffe, Isabel Bishop, Philip Evergood, Paul Cadmus, George Tooker, Man Ray, Harry Sternberg, Norman Rockwell, Chaim Gross, Louise Nevelson, John D. Graham, Louise Bourgeois, Burgoyne Diller, Milton Avery, Mark Rothko, Adolph Gottlieb, Clyfford Still, Jack Tworkov, Barnett Newman, John Marin, Ben Shahn, Lee Krasner, Jackson Pollock, Helen Frankenthaler, Robert Rauschenberg, Knox Martin, Frank Stella, Alfred Leslie, Cy Twombly, Al Held, James Rosenquist, Roy Lichtenstein, Eva Hesse, Lee Bontecou, Robert Smithson, Reuben Nakian, Donald Judd, Mercedes Matter, Marisol Escobar, Red Grooms, James Brooks (painter), Ronnie Landfield, I. Rice Pereira, Fairfield Porter, Louisa Matthiasdottir, Nancy Graves, Tom Otterness, Paul Jenkins (United States painter), Joseph Stella, Ethel Schwabacher, Betty Parsons, Clement Greenberg, Leonard Bocour, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, Will Barnet, Al Hirschfeld, Maurice Sendak, Romare Bearden, Otto Stark and many others.

As of 2007, the League remains an important force in New York City art life.

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