James Lancel McElhinney

James Lancel McElhinney, After Boucher’s Mlle. O’Murphy, Alte Pinakothek, Munich, 2007, Micron pens on New York Central linen sketchbook, 10 x 15 cm.

James Lancel McElhinney is a visual artist, author, educator, and oral historian. He studied at Philadelphia College of Art, and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. McElhinney holds an M.F.A. in Painting from Yale, and a B.F.A. from Tyler School of Art. His artwork has been featured in more than forty solo exhibitions across the country, and can be found in numerous public and private collections. Prior to teaching at the League, McElhinney taught at University of Colorado, East Carolina University, and Pratt Institute. He is the author of numerous essays and several books, including two on drawing from Sterling Publishing, and the newly published Art Students League of New York on Painting (2015) from Penguin Random House. McElhinney has conducted oral histories and interviews with many of America’s top artists, art dealers, and collectors for the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Frick Center for the History of Collecting, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, and the Newington Cropsey Cultural Studies Center. His biography is published in the current edition of Who’s Who in America.

 

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