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Drawing and Painting from Life
 James McElhinney received a B.F.A. from Tyler School of Art, attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and Yale University, where he received a Master of Fine Arts in Painting. His teaching career began as an assistant to Bernard Chaet at Yale, followed by appointments at Bowdoin College, Moore College of Art, Skidmore College, East Carolina University and University of Colorado; Artist in Residence at Harper’s Ferry National Historic Site, and From 2000 to 2003 he created and ran a foreign study program in art in the Venetian Dolomites in Italy. He has been Visiting Associate Professor of Drawing at Pratt Brooklyn since 2004, and has taught at the League since 2005. To quote him:
"Drawing is not a technique, but a language that teaches us how to see what we behold. The human form provides infinite opportunities for visual study…to challenge and surprise us…while anatomy is the composition of the body—composition is the anatomy of the drawing…any successful life drawing is impossible if one exists without the other. My class at the League is like a one-room school house…a community of learning to which all levels are welcome."
Mr. McElhinney has presented more than forty solo exhibitions in U.S. galleries and museums. His first European exhibition was in Ireland in 2003. He received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. His work has appeared in exhibitions at the Denver Art Museum, Chrysler Art Museum, National Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, National Academy of Design and numerous other group shows in the USA and abroad. Mr. McElhinney has published articles on art-related subjects in periodicals such as American Arts Quarterly, Fine Art Connoisseur, Urban Glass and Metalsmith. He is the author of Classical Life Drawing Studio, Sterling Publishing, 2010 and a second book on drawing due to be published in Fall 2011. His biography appears in the 2010 edition of Who’s Who in America.
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