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A long-time Instructor of Drawing and Lecturer on Anatomy at the Art Students League, and Adjunct Professor of Drawing at Columbia, Hale taught and wrote on the principles of chiaroscuro and observation from life, encouraging his students to see and draw forms in nature as the geometric "mass conceptions" of cylinders, cubes, or spheres. [1]
Ellen Eagle is an American artist, best known for her figure drawings and portraits in pastel.At an intimate scale, Eagle's subjects are friends, fellow artists, and professional models drawn from life in natural light. [1]
The League's unique importance in the larger art world dwindled somewhat during the 1960s, partially because of higher academia's emergence as an important presence in contemporary art education, and partially due to a shift in the art world towards minimalism, photography, conceptual art, and a more impersonal and indirect approach to art making.
George Brant Bridgman RCA (November 5, 1864 – December 16, 1943) [1] was a Canadian-American painter, writer, and teacher in the fields of anatomy and figure drawing. Bridgman taught anatomy for artists at the Art Students League of New York for some 45 years.
The Toronto Art Students' League (TASL) or the Toronto Art League as it was called from 1899 on was an association of artists that existed from 1886 to 1904 and advocated drawing from the antique, and drawing and painting from life as a key to making art. [1]
He taught drawing and painting at the Grand Central School of Art, and illustration at Pratt Institute and Moore College of Art. However, he is best known for his twenty-eight years of instructing at the Art Students League of New York and establishing the Frank J. Reilly School of Art in the early 1960s, where he taught until his death in 1967.
Art Students' League of Philadelphia was a short-lived, co-operative art school formed in reaction to Thomas Eakins's February 1886 forced-resignation from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Eakins taught without pay at ASL from 1886 until the school's dissolution in early 1893.
Jerry Weiss (born October 21, 1959) is an American figurative, landscape, and portrait painter [1] [2] and a writer. He studied classical drawing, and his career has centered on both the figure (usually from life studies), and landscape (often painted in the outdoors).