Celebrate 150 Years of The Art Students League of New York
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150 Stories

Get your copy of 150 Stories: Lives of the Artists at the League and trace the last century and a half of art history and learn how artists like Jackson Pollock and Yayoi Kusama found their voices in our studios. 

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150 stories

150 Stories: Lives of the Artists at the League is a landmark anthology featuring 150 essays by leading scholars, curators, and artists, celebrating the League's legacy and its impact on generations of acclaimed artists.

‍Conceived and edited by Stephanie Cassidy, the League’s resident historian and archivist, this limited-edition anthology features more than 150 essays by leading scholars, curators, and artists documenting the lives of the legendary students and instructors at the League over the past 150 years.

‍Supporters of the League's annual fund will receive a physical copy of 150 Stories  as a thank you gift for donations of $250 or more. 150 Stories  will be released in the fall of 2025 and copies are limited. Your gift must be picked up at the League.

Contributing Authors

Elizabeth Ferrer, a curator and writer specializing in Latinx and Mexican art and photography, reflects on the legacy of Sophie Rivera ahead of a fall retrospective at El Museo del Barrio.
Patricia Norby, curator at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, writes about George Morrison, the subject of a current Met exhibition to which the League has loaned several works.
Helen Hsu, curator at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, contributes an essay on featuring one of Rauschenberg’s early League-era paintings, and is involved in several projects commemorating the artist’s centennial, including an upcoming exhibition of his work at the Museum of the City of New York.
Laura Katzman, professor of art history at James Madison University and co-curator of an exhibition on Ben Shahn at the Jewish Museum, contributes essays on both Ben Shahn and his son Jonathan Shahn, a longtime League instructor.
Leonard Marcus, renowned curator and historian of children’sliterature, writes about Maurice Sendak, the acclaimed author and illustrator of children’sbooks including Where the Wild Things Are (1963), whose early years as astudent at the League are little known but deeply formative.
Hallie Ringle, Chief Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia and co-curator of the museum’s Mavis Pusey survey exhibition, writes about the League’s pivotal role in transforming the artist’s life and career.

Physical copies of 150 Stories are only available to supporters of the League's Annual Fund.
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The publication of 150 Stories was supported by The Wyeth Foundation for American Art