150th Anniversary Exhibition Opening

Presented in celebration of the League’s 150th anniversary, Shaping American Art: A Celebration of the Art Students League of New York at 150 examines the League’s rich and complex history and its role in shaping the trajectories of American art from the school’s founding to today. The exhibition is drawn largely from the League’s collection and includes works by acclaimed alumni alongside works on loan by artist foundations, galleries, public institutions, and private collections. The range of works represent key periods in the League’s history as well as the diversity of mediums and techniques taught here, aiming to redefine what it means to be an American artist.

The exhibition features artists who studied or taught at the League:

Berenice Abbott, John Ahearn, Charles H. Alston, Milton Avery, Peggy Bacon, Will Barnet, Gifford Reynolds Beal, James Carroll Beckwith, Ben Benn, Thomas Hart Benton, Theresa Bernstein, Robert Hamilton Blackburn, Arnold Blanch, Edward E. Boccia, Louise Bourgeois, George Brant Bridgman, Alexander Calder, Alexander Stirling Calder, John Fabian Carlson, Steven Cartoccio, William Merritt Chase, Francis Cunningham, Charles Courtney Curran, Dorothy Dehner, Joseph Delaney, Edwin Dickinson, Preston Dickinson, Sidney E. Dickinson, Arthur Wesley Dow, Frank Vincent DuMond, Ernest Fiene, Audrey Flack, Chaim Gross, George Grosz, Al Held, Robert Henri, Al Hirschfeld, Sergei Hollerbach, Winslow Homer, Anna Hyatt Huntington, Robert Ward Johnson, Donald Judd, Rockwell Kent, Stewart Klonis, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Aaron Kurzen, Hughie Lee-Smith, Iria Leino, Martin Lewis, Norman Lewis, Reginald Marsh, Knox Martin, Peter Max, Richard Mayhew, Hildreth Meiere, Kenneth Hayes Miller, F. Luis Mora, Ruth Morley, Seong Moy, Georgia O’Keeffe, Ivan Gregorovitch Olinsky, Anthony Palumbo, Joseph Pennell, Joyce Pensato, Fairfield Porter, Mavis Pusey, Robert Rauschenberg, Boardman Robinson, Norman Rockwell, Emilio Sanchez, Ben Shahn, John Sloan, Tony Smith, Isaac Soyer, Raphael Soyer, Eugene Edward Speicher, Nahum Tschacbasov, Allen Tucker, Charles Yardley Turner, Max Weber, Charles Wilbert White, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, Lemuel Everett Wilmarth, Carmen Winant, Russel Wright, Vaclav Vytlacil.

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