News and Events
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215 West 57th Street (between 7th and 8th Avenues)
New York, NY 10019
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Special Exhibition:
The Masters
Paintings and Sculpture by Major 20th Century Art Students League Master Artists
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A Three-Venue Exhibition: October 18th - December 1st 2018
Exhibition Dates:
Hirschl & Adler: 10/18–12/1
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511 Projects: 10/28–12/1
The Art Students League: 11/1–12/1
Opening: 6-8p.m., Thursday, November 1st, 2018
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The Masters takes place at the three different venues, with staggered openings. Hirschl & Adler, on Thursday, October 18 will show and make available for sale paintings and sculptures by major 20th century ASL master artists. On Sunday, October 28, 511 Projects in Chelsea, opens a show of drawings, prints, and oils and watercolors by many of the same artists. On Thursday, November 1, the Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery at the Art Students League opens its exhibition of works from the last years of the 20th century through present by master artist teachers and students.
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The Masters will present 100 artworks made by major artists, from 1900 to the present, who studied, taught, or studied and taught at the Art Students League.
On view will be works by the school’s early leaders like, Frank Vincent DuMond and Robert Henri; then their students, such as George Bellows, Norman Rockwell and Guy Pène du Bois; and then their “offspring,” including Reginald Marsh, and Yasuo Kuniyoshi.
Subsequent generations of artists whose works will be included in the show and sale are Thomas Hart Benton, Fairfield Porter, David Smith, Adolf Gottlieb, Hans Hofmann, Lee Krasner, Stuart Davis, Philip Guston, Paul Jenkins, Will Barnet, James Rosenquist, Robert Rauschenberg, Knox Martin, and Norman Lewis, among others.
George Grosz, Mark Rothko, Miguel Pou y Becerra and Lorenzo Homar, Celeste Woss y Gil Vaclav Vytlacil, Philip Guston, John Graham, Lee Bontecou, Arshile Gorky, Louisa Matthiasdottir, Ai Weiwei, and Zhang Hongtu are a few of the contributors to the amazing cauldron of cultures, ages, races, and ethnicities that has always been at the core of the Art Students League’s practice and community. Many of these artists will be represented in The Masters.
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The exhibition at the Art Students League includes the work of these current instructors: Frederick Brosen, Naomi Campbell, Robert Cenedella, Bruce Dorfman, Cornelia Foss, Ronnie Landfield, Pat Lipsky, and James Little.
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The Masters is a celebration of this unique art institution and of the students and teachers who are central to its history and its impact on art-making, art history, and the American tradition of openness and acceptance of diverseness. A portion of the proceeds of opening night sales will go to benefit the Art Students League.
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Cornelia Foss, "Karen Wilkin," 2006
Oil on canvas, 30 x 24 in.
New York City Department of Cultural Affairs
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The League's lecture and exhibition programs, Seeds of the League, Model to Monument, and Exhibition Outreach Program are supported in part with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
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Gallery Opening:
Recent & New Paintings
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Curated by MM Fine Art
March 22 - April 14, 2018
Rafael Gallery
235 East 59th Street, New York, NY
Telephone: 212.755.4888
Gallery hours:
Monday-Friday, 11:30 a.m. - 7 p.m.
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See Selected Works Exhibited HERE
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Cornelia Foss' "Loper's Path" (2000, oil on canvas 60 x 70 in.) is featured on the New York Review of Books volume (just released this month - Oct. 2017), "The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick." The photo of the painting/ cover image is by Christopher Foss.
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New York City, March 23, 2017. Cornelia Foss - recipient of a 2017 Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Art
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Three of Foss' larger paintings were on view Spring of 2017 at The American Academy of Arts and Letters, 633 West 155th Street, New York, NY 10032
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