Grand Central School of Art

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The Grand Central School of Art was an American art school in New York City.[1]

Edmund Greacen was president. In 1922, Greacen and John Singer Sargent founded the Grand Central Art Galleries as an artists’ cooperative where members could keep their work on continual display. Businessmen provided the capital; artists paid their dues with artwork, and later traveling exhibitions went out from its location on the top floor of Grand Central Station. This successful venture outlived its founders by fifty-some years. It was created by the Painters and Sculptors' Gallery Association, which was a committee of artists and sculptors headed by John Singer Sargent and Daniel Chester French. The Painters and Sculptors' Gallery Association became the Grand Central Art Galleries, and by 1924 with the help of Edmund Greacen, they had formed the Grand Central School of Art.

NY Times Nov 22, 1922, Great Art Gallery For Grand Central

NY Times Mar 18, 1923, Buy Your Masterpieces Between Trains

NY Times Oct 2, 1924, New Art School Opens Reception Held in Studios Over the Grand Central.

'"The new Grand Central School of Art, opened yesterday with a reception for the instructors and an inspection of the school studios, attended by more than 500 guests, including art students, patrons and artists. Miles Bronson, a Vice President of the New York Central Railroad and terminal manager, accompanied by the staff, officially inspected the school. The instructors will be Edmund Greacen, President; George Pearse Ennis, Chester Beach, Ezra Winter, Dean Cornwell, Helen Dryden, Nicholai Fechin, Julian Bowes and George Elmer Browne. The school's capacity is 800 students, and more than 300 have already enrolled. The school occupies more than 7,000 square feet on the top of the east wing of the Grand Central Terminal and has been constructed in accordance with the plans of Julius Gregory, architect; Chief Engineer Sturgis and Chief Contractor Solan of the New York Central."'

After the closing of the school in 1944, Greacen and family moved to Florida.

[edit] Notable teachers

  • Wayman Adams
  • Harvey Dunn
  • Arshile Gorky
  • Frank Stanley Herring
  • George Pearse Ennis
  • Chester Beach
  • Ezra Winter
  • Dean Cornwell
  • Helen Dryden
  • Nicholai Fechin
  • Julian Bowes
  • George Elmer Browne
  • Ivan Olinsky
  • Edwin Henry
  • Frank Reilly
  • Frank Vincent Dumond
  • Mario Ruben Cooper
  • Loran Wilford
  • Nan Greacen

[edit] Notable students

[edit] References

  1. ^ Staff report (November 23, 1924). 400 ENROLL IN 6 WEEKS.; Grand Central School of Art Announces List of Instructors. New York Times
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