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Ellen Emmet Rand, Artist and Villager

…Cowles Art School in Boston, with William Merritt Chase, and at the Art Students League in New York City from 1889 to 1893. During this time she also contributed fashion…

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Hans Hofmann and the Village

…month later he taught an evening drawing class at the Art Students League. Later that year Hofmann left the Art Students League to teach private art classes at 444 Madison…

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31 Literary Icons of Greenwich Village

…Things Are (1963). Born and raised in Brooklyn, Sendak studied at the Art Students League of New York. At age 20, Sendak began working at F.A.O. Schwarz creating window displays. It…

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Greenwich Village at the White House

…Street by Beulah Bettersworth. Born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1894, Beulah Bettersworth studied at the Art Students League in New York and her teachers included John Sloan and George…

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Jackson Pollock’s Greenwich Village

…painter Thomas Hart Benton, at the Art Students League. Benton’s rural American subject matter shaped Pollock’s work only fleetingly, but his rhythmic use of paint and his fierce independence were lasting influences….

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Paul Cadmus’ Greenwich Village

Art Students League, where he met Jared French, who encouraged him to quit making commercial art. The two became lovers and traveled to Europe from 1931 until 1932, living in…

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Remembering Jackson Pollock

…Pollock soon began studying with Charles’ art teacher, representational regionalist painter Thomas Hart Benton, at the Art Students League. Benton’s rural American subject matter shaped Pollock’s work only fleetingly, but…

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