…and then at the Art Students League. Captivated by modern art especially, Halpert frequented the Newman Montross and Alfred Stieglitz galleries, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and any artist club…
Read More…was yet another artist associated with the Art Students League who kept a studio at 30 East 14th Street) from the Woodstock Artists Association. Hart’s work is characterized by experimentation…
Read More…completing the program in 1918, she was one of 10 artists nationwide selected to attend the Art Students League of New York on a full scholarship. There, she studied with Kenneth…
Read More…League New York in 1930. It is his first known New York address. Pollock was studying with Thomas Hart Benton at the Art Students League at this time. He contributed…
Read More…with the ‘bohemian’ art world of Paris and was encouraged to pursue her own creativity. When she returned to New York, she studied sculpture at the Art Students League. Inspired…
Read More…American artists. Founded in 1987, Amerinda catalyzes Native American performing, visual, literary and media artists, and promotes awareness of these artists. AMERINDA presents curated exhibitions of contemporary Native art and…
Read More…League of Art Students sparked his interest in the fine arts, and he continued taking classes while working night shifts at a typewriter factory until 1918, at which point he…
Read More…art was still struggling to be seen as legitimate among artists of the Western world. The Art Students League, an artist-founded institution that began in 1875 when many art students…
Read More…learn “scientific and artistic dressmaking” and “the entire art of French millinery.” But the use of this building as artist studios has remained relatively consistent throughout its life. Below are…
Read More…place at the New York Public Library. Contemporaries described her as “one of America’s most promising young graphic artists.” The artist’s signature. Image via hirofineart.com. Gag’s cover art for an…
Read More…of Art, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice. Other notable artist residents of 30 East 14th Street include “Fourteenth Street School”…
Read More…CitiBank), egg tempera on board, 1932. Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH. © 2021 Estate of Reginald Marsh / Art Students League, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New…
Read More…divorced his wife for Earhart, been working for some years as Earhart’s publicist, and campaigning to make Earhart one of America’s most famous women. In the wonderfully-written New York Times…
Read More…influential Union League Club to rally civic leaders, businessmen, artists, art collectors, philanthropists and civic leaders to the cause. While it was Jay’s vision that brought the Metropolitan Museum to…
Read More…the work of women artists. Brick and Vapor, New York City by Edith Prellwitz At a time when women artists were undervalued by the male-dominated art world, the Club was…
Read More…realized they could actually attract artists and artist-wannabe’s to even these least desirable top floor spaces by turning them into “artist’s studios.” This involved inserting a large industrial casement window…
Read More…the early 20th century, artists and those who just liked to live around artists became interested in these neighborhoods, and property owners realized they could actually attract artists and artist-wannabe’s…
Read More…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…
Read More…do you know when the work of art is finished?” To this question, the artists Richard Pousette-Dart, Seymour Lipton, as well as Biala, chimed in. Pousette-Dart: For me it is…
Read MoreArt on the Ave was conceived in June 2020 by three teachers struggling to find a way to discuss the year’s events with their students. They thought about art and…
Read More…of American Art . Courtesy the Whitney Museum of American Art. The Whitney Museum of American Art occupied the Marcel Breuer building from 1966 to 2014. Following the Whitney’s departure,…
Read More…the Société des Artistes Indépendants; the first Chinese artist to display his work internationally; the first Chinese artist to show at MoMa; and the first Chinese artist to show in…
Read More…the artist. In general, museums are involved with art as decor, while the artist is involved with art as a way of life. Moderator Lippold: What we are leading up to…
Read More…Museum of American Art. When the couple returned to New York, they kept studios in the same building as Miller and other Art Students League instructors and students Yasuo Kuniyoshi,…
Read More…school. Shortly after arriving in the United States, Raphael and Moses Soyer began taking art classes at the National Academy of Design, the Art Students League of New York, and…
Read More…Broadway, and then 257 Broadway, Stewart began learning how to astutely develop and maintain a dry-goods business. As commercial enterprises around the city failed during the Panic of 1837, Stewart…
Read More…1916 he studied at the Art Students League under Kenneth Hayes Miller alongside Stuart Davis, Edward Hopper, and Alexander Calder. Kuniyoshi’s first solo exhibition was in 1922 at the Daniel Gallery…
Read More…most part no longer the proverbial starving artists — that is unless they are lucky enough to live at Westbeth (subsidized housing for artists), in rent stabilized housing (of which…
Read More…Mexico. Courtesy of the Museum of Modern Art. David Alfaro Siqueiros, Echo of a Scream, 1937. Museum of Modern Art, New York. © 2021 Siqueiros David Alfaro / Artists Rights…
Read More…For President Committee Photograph Page 5: Villager article from august 2nd, about a 250 person Dinner with Eleanor Roosevelt, July New York Post article “In the Back Rooms” regarding Carmine…
Read MoreThe Life and Art of William Glackens: A lecture and slideshow with art historian Avis Berman William Glackens was an American realist painter who was essential to the development of…
Read More…a scholar of art and art history? In this special talk, Andrew will take a look at some of the great works of art which were inspired by or were…
Read MoreMemories of an Artist Community: A Panel Conversation on the History of Westbeth Artists’ Residence Program Canceled Westbeth Artists Housing is the world’s largest artists’ community. The complex, erected between…
Read More…works of art, both well-known and obscure. About the Speaker: Robert B. Simon is an art historian and art dealer in New York, specializing in Renaissance and Baroque paintings. He…
Read More…bums to preachers–art students–bartenders–conductors, etc. ought to make an immense hit–and get everybody asking questions.” “Menu” from the Armory Show banquet (1913), Archives of American Art On March 8, 1913,…
Read More…the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs. The DCA decided that the certification would be based on the artist’s need for space and his/her commitment to the art. Artist Certification Letter…
Read MoreGreenwich Village Stories: The Art of Frederick Brosen A slideshow and talk with the artist Frederick Brosen’s native New York is his primary subject as he celebrates the built environment…
Read More…level of success in the art world, and his work referenced issues of class and race and drew upon street art and graffiti art. Basquiat’s painting ‘Defacement (The Death of…
Read More…lived in the Village for much of his life. Gross attended the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design from 1922-25, and the Art Students League in 1926, with sculptor Robert Laurent. In…
Read More…art exhibitions, public programs, publications, and research by curators, art historians, activists, and students. We encourage you to explore Visual AIDS Day With(out) Art 2021 project, Enduring Care, featuring videos…
Read MoreWestbeth: A Revolution in Artists’ Housing and Adaptive Re-Use A Celebratory Lecture with Andrew Dolkart…
Read More…in which she is interviewed. League of Women Shoppers pamphlet, circa 1937. Jessie Lloyd O’Connor Papers, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College. Arthur and Blanche divorced in 1924, and Arthur remarried…
Read More…be. The club was made to be for representational art only, which served very well for that time but because abstract art became the major interest in the art world,…
Read More…to the art of sculpture and to art education; for her highly regarded portrayals of towering African American figures such as Martin Luther King Jr., Booker T. Washington, and Mary…
Read MoreArtist, poet, philanthropist, teacher, writer, and inventor Yun Gee (1906-1963) was the first Chinese-American artist to hold an important position in the history of Western contemporary art. Considered one of the…
Read More…influential East Village artists produced artworks addressing what happened to Stewart. This includes Andy Warhol’s screen-printed painting from 1983 incorporating a New York Daily News article on Stewart’s death, Keith Haring’s…
Read More…titled “THIS TOWN IS NO FIT PLACE FOR AN ARTIST” about the displaced artists of the Village. “Where do we go from here” asks the Village artists who are not…
Read More…custody, of artist Michael Stewart. Stewart was arrested for spray-painting a subway wall at the 1st Avenue L Station and beaten unconscious after police reported that he resisted arrest. Stewart never regained…
Read More…Vienna, Austria, Kayn came to New York to study at the Arts Student League, and her landscape paintings are now part of the permanent collections of the Butler Art Institute,…
Read More…artists and scene makers Keith Haring and Kenny Scharf, both major players in the emerging East Village art scene. They were to remain an integral part of Basquiat’s life and…
Read More…Cage, who was gay, was an important member as well. Non-artist gallery owner Charlie Egan, and art writers Harold Rosenberg and Tom Hess were all also a part of the…
Read MoreThe Bea Arthur Residence for homeless LGBT youth, named for “Golden Girl” Bea Arthur, was born of a partnership between the Cooper Square Committee and the Ali Forney Center. This…
Read More…seen as legitimate among artists of the Western world. The Art Students League, an artist-founded institution that began in 1875 when many art students became dissatisfied with the lack of…
Read More…the Art Students League with leading neighborhood art world figures Kenneth Hayes Miller and John Sloan. While Bacon experimented with abstraction and modernism early in her training, she ultimately, like…
Read More…prestigious Art Students League of New York. Her work there grew and matured as she came into her own as an artist. As a result of her time at the…
Read More…join the Société des Artistes Indépendants; the first Chinese artist to display his work internationally; the first Chinese artist to show at MoMa; and the first Chinese artist to show…
Read More…Minneapolis, Minnesota, Olds was awarded a scholarship to study at the Art Students League under George Luks, a founder of the Ashcan School. Olds was introduced to social realist subject…
Read More…Pioneer’s Art World Is Resurrected at the Jewish Museum” “Art for Everyday People” “Rediscovered Women Artists: Edith Gregor Halpert” “When Edith Met Abby” Downtown Gallery Records — American Art Archives…
Read More…who have worked and continue to work toward equality and justice in all its iterations. Today we honor our President Emeritus, Arthur A. Levin, a stalwart community leader for decades,…
Read More…works were, the art world that recognized their ‘genius’ did not grant similar recognition to many artists of color or female artists. For many of these artists, they had a…
Read More…of Modern Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta and the Art Institute of Chicago. “For Benny there was no line where his activism…
Read More…performance artists, Abstract Expressionists, American Realists, Pop Artists, and Collagists. Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline and other eminent artists had studios near the 10th Street Galleries and often served as…
Read More…the artists. Twice a year, formal exhibitions were held in the center gallery. The Tenth Street Studios attracted a who’s-who of the American art world; just some of the artists…
Read More…Façade of 30 East 14th Street Artist Studios via Apartments.com. The Fourteenth Street School, led by Art Students League instructor Kenneth Hayes Miller, came to prominence in the 1930s, growing…
Read More…several years before to study art at the Art Students League, and Frank had begun studying literature at Columbia. Paul Jackson Pollock dropped his first name once in New York…
Read More…Ukraine Yaroslava graduated from Cooper Union with a degree in art and began working as art editor for Humpty Dumpty’s Magazine for Little Children. The Downtown art scene at that…
Read More…Arthur A. Levin internship focusing on cultural history in his honor. Village Preservation Trustee Art Levin Art led the organization as President of the Board of Trustees through some of…
Read More…associated. While Bearden’s childhood and early career in Harlem greatly influenced his art, his art practice and signature style only reached its pinnacle after he moved downtown, where he produced…
Read More…also house Howl! Arts/ Howl Archive, (HA/HA), an archive project that already contains the personal records of several local artists, including Candy Darling, Tom Murrin, and Arturo Vega, among others,…
Read More…“Father of Video Art,” played a vital role in our neighborhoods’ rich artistic history. Working out of his studio in Westbeth along with his partner and fellow avant-garde artist Shigeko…
Read More…League, an artist-founded institution that began in 1875 when many art students became dissatisfied with the lack of quality instruction in the basics of portraiture, sculpture, and composition offered by…
Read More…her private collection of art, and to promote artist friends who she felt were under appreciated. Gallery Director Tim McDarrah https://www.instagram.com/timothymcdarrah/ Art of Our Century Gallery Director Tim McDarrah says…
Read More…has been a boon for the many art students that study in the vicinity. So has NY Central’s reasonable prices and a scholarship for local Cooper Union students. The staff…
Read More61 East Fourth Street houses the office of the Fourth Arts Block This weekend, tour guide Lawrence Frommer and Fourth Arts Block executive director Tamara Greenfield led a tour of…
Read More…Christina Maile’s work and impact via our oral history and support her work at Westbeth–both artistically and as a part of this unique artist community that deeply impacts our neighborhoods….
Read More…that we perhaps don’t give much thought to. Stewart House at 70 East 10th Street One such example in our neighborhood might be the Stewart House. Built c. 1960 and…
Read More…brought about unbelievable the-future-is-now ways of connecting us all. Google Arts & Culture virtually brings you face to face with some of the most astounding works of art, cultural institutions,…
Read More…Cornelius Davis to institute a system of running the school in which higher-achieving students were elevated to take part of the education of their peers, passing on information, gaining independence,…
Read More…Fred W. McDarrah Though the Tenth Street artist enclave was but a short block between Third and Fourth Avenues, it was the heart of the New York art world during…
Read More…in Philadelphia and San Francisco before eventually making his way to New York. While there, he briefly attended both the Parsons School of Design and the Art Students League of…
Read More…Museum of Modern Art, New Orleans Museum of Modern Art and the Harry Ransom Museum. He has received numerous grants and awards including a National Endowment of the Arts Award….
Read More…an incredibly rich ecosystem for the arts made up of cultural organizations, arts spaces, gardens, artists, and activists. New generations of artists continue to pass through the neighborhood’s cultural spaces…
Read More…updated directory of city, state and federal legislators who represent New York residents. The League also offers debates that inform and stimulate. The League and WABC, for example, were selected…
Read More…In the coming years, 10 East 14th Street not only became a critical part of the neighborhood’s emergence as a commercial center, but also a part of its transformation into…
Read More…that broad reach. Born on January 6, 1883, in Lebanon, which at the time was part of Ottoman Syria, educated in Beirut, Boston, and Paris, the artist and poet found…
Read More…new homes throughout the city. A seminal arts space for theater, music, and art was no more. Today, the site is home to an NYU dormitory for its law-school students….
Read More…Chrysler Building, or Rockefeller Center. However Greenwich Village and the East Village boast some of their own Art Deco gems, also worth examining. Art Deco was known by several names…
Read More…Ben Shahn. 1936. The number of artists and art organizations in Greenwich Village and the surrounding neighborhoods in the early 20th century were crucial to the evolution of America art….
Read More…modern art. Art Smith holding “Spiral Necklace,” ca. 1958. From the Estate of Art Smith Art Smith was born in 1917 in Cuba to Jamaican parents. His family moved to…
Read More…the spot where many recording artists created their first prominent albums, such as Lauryn Hill’s Grammy-winning album “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill,” amongst others. Some other Grammy artists that recorded…
Read More…artist originally from Pennsylvania who moved to the city to attend Hunter College. You have probably seen her art around the city; either on buildings or lamposts. Libby’s art has…
Read More…AICH’s gallery. Jemison was one of the Co-Founders of the New York Contemporary Native American Art Movement, and created a component of Signal, an art piece located in the Broadway…
Read MoreArturo’s on Houston and Thompson Streets Arturo’s, best known for its delicious coal-oven pizza, first opened on MacDougal Street in 1957 before moving to its current location on Houston and…
Read More…Ed workbook, Discovering Greenwich Village. This would grow into our current course designed for students in 1st-5th grades called Greenwich Village: Past and Present. This course now offers elementary students…
Read More…research subjects and was said to have pressured students to join in. Leary and his colleague, Richard Alpert (who later became known as Ram Dass), were fired from Harvard University…
Read More…then called Arts for Transit and Urban Design (now called Arts & Design) as part of an ambitious capital improvement program meant to reverse years of subway system decline. At…
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