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9 unusual facts about Art Students League of New York


Askia M. Touré

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

Diarmuid O'Ceallacháin

He spent time in New York in 1962 where he visited the Art Students League of New York and also worked in France, Germany, Greece and the Middle East.

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.

George Sheldon Johnsen

He studied drawing with George Bridgman and William Charles McNulty at the Art Students League of New York, and painting at Williamson Teachers College under the tutelage of Jack Perlmutter.

Helen Twelvetrees

Upon graduation, she enrolled in the Art Students League of New York where she studied for a year before enrolling at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.

Henry Hensche

He also studied at the National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts, the Art Students League of New York, the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design, and Charles Webster Hawthorne's Cape Cod School of Art.

Ivan Olinsky

He was awarded full membership in the National Academy of Design in 1919, and served as an longtime instructor at the Art Students League of New York.

Joseph Peller

Joseph Peller (born 1953) is an artist and current teacher at the Art Students League of New York.

Robert Volpe

Born in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, Volpe studied art at the High School of Art and Design, Parsons School for Design and the Art Students League of New York.


Charles S. Kaelin

He studied under John Henry Twachtman between 1876 and 1879, after which time he moved to New York City and joined the Art Students League of New York.

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.

Don Rubbo

In 1962 Don Rubbo started a small Manhattan arts studio with friend Tom Daly and Daly’s friend from the Art Students League of New York, Peter Max.

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.

Herbert Denman

Pupil of Art Students League of New York, and Carolus Duran, Paris; honorable mention, Paris Salon, 1886, and Paris Exposition, 1889 ; member Society of American Artists 1887.

Jacob Burck

Thereafter, Burck moved to New York City where he studied at the Art Students League of New York with Albert Sterner and Boardman Robinson.

John McCrady

After winning a scholarship from the Art Students League of New York for his "Portrait of a Negro," McCrady studied art with Thomas Hart Benton and Kenneth Hayes Miller.

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.

Leonard Everett Fisher

Between 1932 and 1942, Leonard Everett Fisher continued his training at the Heckscher Foundation (NY), with Moses and Raphael Soyer (NY), with Reginald Marsh at the Art Students League of New York, and Serge Chermayeff at Brooklyn College.

Nicolas Carone

He began formal art studies at the age of eleven at the Leonardo da Vinci School located at St. Mark's Church on E.10th St. He studied at the National Academy of Design under Leon Kroll, Art Students League of New York, Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts, and the Rome Academy of Fine Arts.

Roberto Gari

In 1939 Gari enrolled and studied at the Art Students League of New York under the auspices of such renowned instructors as Will Barnet and Ethel Schwabacher.

Roy Kuhlman

He received a scholarship to the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles and in 1946 obtained another scholarship to the Art Students League of New York, and also attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine.

Sudjana Kerton

Kerton studied at the Art Student League at New York City, where he learned from Yasuo Kuniyoshi and Harry Sternberg.


see also

Gilbert Gaul

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