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unusual facts about Art Students League



Askia M. Touré

He moved to New York City and joined the Art Students League, and the Umbra poets.

Charles M. Relyea

He studied art under Thomas Eakins at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and under Frank Vincent DuMond at the Art Students League in New York City before completing his training in Paris.

Chon Day

After one year, he left and later enrolled in 1929 at New York City's Art Students League, where he studied under Boardman Robinson, George Bridgman and John Sloan.

Dudu Gerstein

After two years in Paris, he moved to New York and attended classes of the Art Students League, where he learned portrait painting and printmaking.

Edwina Dumm

Moving to New York City, she continued her art studies at the Art Students League and created Cap Stubbs and Tippie, syndicated by the George Matthew Adams Service.

L. Birge Harrison

He became a member of the National Academy of Design in 1910, National Institute of Arts and Letters, New York Water Color Club, Society of American Artists, and was director of the landscape school of the Art Students League.

Roman Chatov

Chatov later joined the Art Students League and the National Academy of Arts in order to improve his art training and skills.


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Edward Leigh Chase

Graduating from the Art Students League, the Chase brothers headed upstate to the Catskill Mountains to join in an experimental Bohemian commune of a style, organized by Ralph Whitehead in Woodstock, New York.

Frederick Zimmermann

In addition to music, Zimmermann studied painting with George Grosz at the Art Students' League, had three showings, and often lectured on modern German painters.

Gilbert Gaul

He also studied with John G. Brown and at the Art Students' League of New York when it opened in 1875.

Harvey Dinnerstein

He has been a very influential instructor for several generations of students at The National Academy of Design and the Art Students League, including Ephraim Rubenstein, Nomi Silverman and Gregory Frux.

John Fulton Folinsbee

As a child, he attended classes at the Art Students’ League of Buffalo, but received his first formal training in with the landscape painter Jonas Lie when he was fifteen.

Louis Bouche

He taught at the Art Students League in New York, University of Cincinnati, and Drake University.

Simon Gaon

In 1964, he studied in Academia 63 in Haarlem, the Netherlands, and furthered his European education with the Art Students League Merit Scholarship (1965) and the Edward G. McDowell traveling scholarship