뉴욕의 명문 미술학교 아트스튜던트리그(The Art Student League of New York,  215 W 57th St.)가 설립 150주년을 맞아 5월 29일부터 8월 17일까지 필리스해리만메이슨 갤러리에서 특별전 '미국미술의 형성(Shaping American Art)'을 연다.

 

이번 전시엔 이 학교에서 가르치거나 배웠던 미술가 100여명의 작품이 선보인다. 화가 밀턴 에버리, 토마스 하트 벤튼, 윌리엄 메릿 체이스, 아서 도브, 윈슬로 호머, 노만 루이스, 조지아 오키프, 로버트 라우셴버그, 존 슬론, 조각가 루이스 부르주아, 알렉산더 칼더, 도날드 저드, 토니 스미스, 사진작가 베레니스 아보트, 아르데코 디자이너 힐드레스 미에어, 그리고 조각가이자 휘트니뮤지엄 설립자인 거트루드 밴더빌트 휘트니 등의 작품이 전시될 예정이다. 

 

 

Shaping American Art: A Celebration of the Art Students League of New York at 150 

 

May 29 - August 17, 2025

@Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery, AFAS Lobby, Registration Office, Café Atelier

 

Milton Avery, Untitled, 1945, Watercolor on paper, 17.5 x 20.5 in. Permanent Collection, The Art Students League of New York. Gift of Lenore L Wesely. © Estate of Milton Avery.

 

This exhibition examines the Art Students League of New York’s rich and complex history and its impacts on the trajectories of American art since 1875. For the last 150 years, the League has been home to artists of every medium and movement. Not immune to the ups and downs of our lived experience, the League has withstood two World Wars, stock market crashes, the Great Depression, the Cold War, and other major upheavals of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. As these events have shaped the institution, the League, in turn, has shaped its artists and the course of American art. More than a citation in an artist’s biography or a footnote to an epoch, the League firmly holds a place in the manifold histories of American art.

 

Hundreds of thousands of students and instructors have crossed paths with the League in its 150 years. They have broken boundaries, developed their own voices, and found new havens in our studios and galleries. They have been exposed to the “masters” whilst pushing the limits of their individuality. In the face of World Wars and other societal tribulations, the League has been a sanctuary for international artists. Whether born in the United States or abroad, artists of diverse backgrounds are drawn to the League. It has been—and continues to be—the spark for lifelong friendships and even romances. This exhibition explores how artists have changed and been changed by their time at the League.

 

While nearly 100 League artists are represented in this exhibition, thousands of more are not; yet their works remain in dialogue with one another, thanks to the shared connection that is the League. 

 

This exhibition is co-curated by Esther V. Moerdler and Ksenia Nouril, PhD.

 

 

Georgia O’Keeffe, Dead Rabbit with Copper Pot, 1908, oil on canvas, 19 x 23½ in. Collection of the Art Students League of New York.

 

The exhibition features artists who studied or taught at the League:

Berenice Abbott, John Ahearn, Charles H. Alston, Milton Avery, Peggy Bacon, Will Barnet, Gifford Reynolds Beal, James Carroll Beckwith, Ben Benn, Thomas Hart Benton, Theresa Bernstein, Robert Hamilton Blackburn, Arnold Blanch, Edward E. Boccia, Louise Bourgeois, George Brant Bridgman, Alexander Calder, Alexander Stirling Calder, John Fabian Carlson, Steven Cartoccio, William Merritt Chase, Francis Cunningham, Charles Courtney Curran, Dorothy Dehner, Joseph Delaney, Edwin Dickinson, Preston Dickinson, Sidney E. Dickinson, Arthur Wesley Dow, Frank Vincent DuMond, Ernest Fiene, Audrey Flack, Chaim Gross, George Grosz, Al Held, Robert Henri, Al Hirschfeld, Sergei Hollerbach, Winslow Homer, Anna Hyatt Huntington, Robert Ward Johnson, Donald Judd, Rockwell Kent, Stewart Klonis, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Aaron Kurzen, Hughie Lee-Smith, Iria Leino, Martin Lewis, Norman Lewis, Reginald Marsh, Knox Martin, Peter Max, Richard Mayhew, Hildreth Meiere, Kenneth Hayes Miller, F. Luis Mora, Ruth Morley, Seong Moy, Georgia O’Keeffe, Ivan Gregorovitch Olinsky, Anthony Palumbo, Joseph Pennell, Joyce Pensato, Fairfield Porter, Mavis Pusey, Robert Rauschenberg, Boardman Robinson, Norman Rockwell, Emilio Sanchez, Ben Shahn, John Sloan, Tony Smith, Isaac Soyer, Raphael Soyer, Eugene Edward Speicher, Nahum Tschacbasov, Allen Tucker, Charles Yardley Turner, Max Weber, Charles Wilbert White, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, Lemuel Everett Wilmarth, Carmen Winant, Russel Wright, Vaclav Vytlacil.