February 1 – April 2, 2021
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Eugene Edward Speicher, Georgia O’Keeffe
The Art Students League of NY is pleased to present a selection of portraits from their permanent collection. The works will be on view at the Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery on the League’s second floor. The focus of this exhibition has been bringing to view rarely seen works of previous instructors, students and artists with connections to the League. Of the 218 portraits in the collection, 50 works have been selected, including sculpture, painting, printmaking, drawing and mixed media, all varying greatly stylistically. The exhibition presents work from 1850 to current day. During this time, portraiture was affected by many cultural events.
The exhibition presents a wide variety in portraiture and examines the continued challenge of depicting the human head, the human gaze, and the likeness of the subject. Featured is the new acquisition
“By the Window” by Harvey Dinnerstein, a powerful pastel portrait of love in the later years of life.
Fairfield Porter, Katie
In Faces of the League, you will find works like the admired portrait of Georgia O’Keeffe by Eugene Edward Speicher and a small, sensitive portrait by Fairfield Porter of his daughter Katie. You will also be introduced to lesser known works by feminist artists like Anne Goldthwaite, a painter and printmaker who drew Reverend Dr. Joseph Barry. A portrait of a tough-looking and smoking Maria Rother Wickey, who taught at the League, is captured by her student Helen Farr. Marion Greenwood, a Brooklyn native who studied mural painting with Diego Rivera in Mexico, shares her portrait of a girl in a short black dress, bored backstage and waiting to perform.
Throughout history artists have searched to capture the human condition in the expressions of the face. The importance of delivering a likeness became less important in the nineteenth century as photography became popular, and with Impressionism and Expressionism (beginning in the 1850s and 1920s respectively) the general public opened up to experimentation and a livelier way of capturing the face.
Faces of the League demonstrates this art-historical shift in how the human face is perceived and captured in works of art.
Artists: Peggy Bacon, James Carroll Beckwith, Jack Bilander, Ellen Booth, Louis Bosa, Robert Brackman, John Fabian Carlson, Mary Cassatt, Malagnino Catalda, Nathaniel Cobb, Alfred Quinton Collins, Alfred Quinton Collins, Tom Creem, Louis De Donato, Dorothy Dehner, Harvey Dinnerstein, William F. Draper, Helen Farr, Frederick Warren Freer, Paul Gattuso, Jim Gellert, Anne Goldthwaite, Stephen Greene, Marion Greenwood, Amy H. Gutman, Robert Henri, Barney Hodes, Robert Ward Johnson, Albert Kotin, Edith Kröger, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Richard Francis Lahey, Jack Levine, Robert James Malone, Edward Melcarth, Ruth Blanchard Miller, Maria Neulist, Satoshi Okada, Ivan Gregorovitch Olinsky, Sam Ollar, Robert Philipp, Fairfield Porter, Agnes Richmond, Ann Schabbehar, Sidney Simon, John Sloan, Isabel Smith, Raphael Soyer, Eugene Edward Speicher, Harry Sternberg, Gustav William Von Schlegell, Vaclav Vytlacil, Helen C. Wheeler, Charlotte Whinston, Marguerite Zorach and William Zorach.
BIOGRAPHIES
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Peggy Bacon
Laurent Charcoal on paper, 16 ¾” x 13 ¾”
James Carroll Beckwith
Portrait of a Young Lady ca.1900, Oil on canvas, 24” x 20”
Jack Bilander
Tomorrow was Yesterday 1967, Ink on paper, etching, 20” x 15 ¾”
Ellen Booth
Untitled Oil on canvas, 24” x 20”
Louis Bosa
Me 1947, Oil on canvas, 12” x 7”
Robert Brackman
Untitled Ink on paper, etching, 5” x 4”
John Fabian Carlson
The Pink Kimono 1906, Oil on canvas, 31 ¼” x 24”
Mary Cassatt
Study of a Mother's Head Watercolor on paper, 17 ½” x 14 ¾”
Malagnino Catalda
Untitled Ink on paper, 8 ¾” x 7 ⅜”
Nathaniel Cobb
Portrait of Sady With a Book Oil on panel, 21 ¼” x 18”
Alfred Quinton Collins
Portrait of Joe Evans Oil on board, 13 ½” x 11 ¼”
Alfred Quinton Collins
Joe Evans Oil on board, 13 ½” x 11 ¼”
Thomas (Tom) Creem
Yasuo Kuniyoshi Ink on paper, 10 2/4” x 7 ½”
Louie De Donato
Untitled Pencil on paper, 8” x 6”
Harvey Dinnerstein
At the Window 2020, Pastel on board, 15 ¾” x 27 ½”
Helen Farr (Sloan)
Maria Rother Wickey Charcoal on paper, 17” x 13.5”
Frederick Warren Freer
Untitled Oil on board, 8” x 6”
Dorothy Dehner
Portrait of Wilhemina Weber Furlong 1931, Oil on canvas, 28” x 22”
William F. Draper
Xavier Gonzalez Oil on canvas, 40” x 32”
Paul Gattuso
Untitled Oil on canvas, 44” x 36”
Jim Gellert
Untitled 1948, Ink on paper, print, 12” x 9 ¼”
Anne Goldthwaite
The Reverend Dr. Joseph Barry Ink on Paper, 11” x 9"
Stephen Greene
Untitled Ink on Paper, 9” x 7”
Marion Greenwood
Backstage Oil on canvas, 36” x 25”
Amy H. Gutman
Untitled Ink on paper, etching, 6” x 3 ⅝”
Robert Henri
Untitled Crayon on paper, cream wove, 5” x 6 ⅝”
Robert Ward Johnson
Untitled Oil on board, 36” x 24”
Albert Kotin
The Fisherman Ink on paper, 14” x 10”
Edith Kröger
Seated Girl 1915, Oil Paint on canvas, 24” x 20”
Yasuo Kuniyoshi
Untitled [Face] Ink on paper, 11” x 8.5”
Richard Francis Lahey
Ruth Ann 1949, Oil on canvas, 38” x 31”
Jack Levine
Bearded Man Ink on paper, 7 ¾” x 9 ½”
Edward Melcarth
Untitled Oil on canvas, 24” x 20”
Robert James Malone
Untitled Ink on paper, lithograph, 8” x 5 ¾”
Ruth Blanchard Miller
Untitled Ink on paper, etching, 4” x 3”
Maria Neulist
Untitled Pastel on paper, 25 ½” x 19 ½”
Satoshi Okada
Self-portrait as Janitor at the Art Students League 2010, Graphite & charcoal on paper, 24” x 18”
Sam Ollar
Untitled Watercolor on paper, 7” x 4”
Ivan Gregorovitch Olinsky
Portrait of An Artist 1930, Oil Paint on Canvas, 36” x 30”
Robert Philipp
Untitled (Portrait of the Artist's Mother) 1940, Oil on canvas, 50” x 40”
Fairfield Porter
Katie 1946, Oil on canvas, 15” x 14 ½”
Agnes Richmond
Untitled 1906, Oil on canvas, 20” x 16”
Ann Schabbehar
Lingling, five years old Charcoal on paper, 23” x 17 ½”
Sidney Simon
Girl's Head Bronze, 10 ¼” x 9” x 9”
John Sloan
Mr. Eisenhauer 1911, Oil on canvas, 24” x 20”
Isabel Smith
Suzie Ink on paper, etching, 11 ¼” x 7 ½”
Raphael Soyer
Untitled Oil on canvas, 10” x 8”
Eugene Edward Speicher
Portrait of Georgia O'Keeffe 1908, Oil on canvas, 17 ½” x 22 ½”
Harry Sternberg
Chaim Gross by Sternberg 1943, Ink on paper, 23 ⅝” x 16 ¼”
Unknown
20" x 16.5"
Unknown
Gustav William Von Schlegell
Unknown
Poor-Trait of Dr. C. D. Lobster 1898, Mixed media on board, 31” x 19”
Unknown
A Man In a Top Hat Oil on canvas, 17 ¾” x 13 ¾”
Gustav William Von Schlegell
Boy in Red 1948, Oil on board, 20” x 16”
Vaclav Vytlacil
Girl With a Red Bird 1967, Acrylic tempera on paper, 40” x 24”
Helen C. Wheeler
Portrait of a Lady Oil on canvas, 24” x 20”
Charlotte Whinston
Portrait of a Woman Oil on canvas, 20” x 16”
Marguerite Zorach
Reuben Nakian Pencil on paper, 20 ½” x 14 ½”
William Zorach
Untitled 1950, on Bronze, 17 ¾” x 11”
