The National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts, founded in New York City as the National Academy of Design—known simply as the "National Academy"—is an honorary association of American artists, with a museum and a school of fine arts.
It was founded in 1825 by Samuel F. B. Morse, Asher B. Durand, Thomas Cole, and others "to promote the fine arts in America through instruction and exhibition."
The academy houses a public collection of over five thousand works of nineteenth and twentieth century American art.
It has had several homes over the years. Notable among them was a building built during 1863-1865, of Gothic Revival style, which was modeled on the Doge's Palace in Venice. One locale was at West 104th Street and Amsterdam Avenue in Manhattan, where comic-book artist George Tuska studied in the mid-1930s.[1] Since 1942 the academy has occupied a mansion that was the former home of sculptor Anna Hyatt Huntington and Archer Milton Huntington at Fifth Avenue and Eighty-ninth Street.
The school offers studio instruction, master classes, intensive critiques, various workshops, and lunchtime lectures. Scholarships are available.
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History
The original founders of the National Academy of Design were students of the American Academy of Fine Arts. However, by 1825 the students of the Academy felt a lack of support for teaching from the Academy, its board composed of merchants, lawyers, and physicians, and from its unsympathetic president, the famous American Revolutionary War artist Colonel John Trumbull. Samuel F. B. Morse and other students set about forming "the drawing association" to meet several times each week for the study the art of design. Still, the association was viewed as a dependent organization of the Academy, from which they felt neglected. An attempt was made to reconcile the difference and maintain a single academy by appointing six of the artists from the association as directors of the Academy, however, when four of the nominees were not elected, the frustrated artists resolved to form a new academy and the National Academy of Design was born.[2]
Famous Instructors
Among the teaching staff were numerous artists, including Will Hicok Low who taught from 1889-1892. The famous American poet William Cullen Bryant also gave lectures. Architect Alexander Jackson Davis (A.J. Davis) taught at the Academy. Painter Lemuel Wilmarth was the first full-time instructor. [3] Gulian C. Verplanck, a Congressman and a man of letters, gave an address at the school in 1824.[4]
Instructors
Source:[4]
- John Trumbull
- William S. Leney
- John McComb Jr.
- Samuel Lovett Waldo
- William Dunlap
- Peter Maverick
- Archibald Robertson
- Alexander Robertson
- A. Anderson
- William Rollinson
- G.B. Brown
- A. Dickinson
- John Vanderlyn
- J. O'Donnel
Members of the National Academy of Design
Members of the National Academy are denoted by "N. A.", and one cannot apply for membership. Some of the better-known members of the Academy have included:
- Edwin Blashfield
- Lee Bontecou
- Stanley Boxer
- Vija Celmins
- Benjamin Champney
- William Merritt Chase
- Frederic Edwin Church
- Chuck Close
- Colin Campbell Cooper
- Charles Harold Davis
- Henry Golden Dearth
- Richard Diebenkorn
- Thomas Eakins
- Lydia Field Emmet
- Helen Frankenthaler
- Daniel Chester French
- Frank Gehry
- Arthur Hill Gilbert
- Horatio Greenough
- Red Grooms
- Armin Hansen
- Edward Lamson Henry
- Winslow Homer
- Jasper Johns
- Charles Keck
- Ellsworth Kelly
- Emanuel Leutze
- Sol Lewitt
- Maya Lin
- Evelyn Beatrice Longman
- Frederick William Macmonnies
- Brice Marden
- Knox Martin
- Jervis McEntee
- Gari Melchers
- F. Luis Mora
- Henry Siddons Mowbray
- Victor Nehlig
- Tom Otterness
- William Page
- Philip Pearlstein
- I. M. Pei
- William Lamb Picknell
- Alexander Phimister Proctor
- Robert Rauschenberg
- Benjamin Franklin Reinhart
- Dorothea Rockburne
- Robert Ryman
- Augustus Saint-Gaudens
- John Singer Sargent
- Richard Serra
- Nancy Spero
- T. C. Steele
- Frank Stella
- Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait
- Henry Ossawa Tanner
- Edmund C. Tarbell
- Louis Comfort Tiffany
- Cy Twombly
- Calvert Vaux
- Edward Charles Volkert
- Robert Vonnoh
- John Quincy Adams Ward
- Frank Lloyd Wright
- Stow Wengenroth
- Milford Zornes
- William Jay Bolton
- James Henry Beard
See also
- List of museums and cultural institutions in New York City
- Effects of the financial crisis of 2007–2009 on museums
References
- ^ Cassell, Dewey, with Aaron Sultan and Mike Gartland. The Art of George Tuska (TwoMorrows Publishing, 2005), ISBN-10 1893905403; ISBN-13 978-1893905405, p. 10
- ^ Dulap, William (1918). A History of the Rise and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States (Vol. 3). C. E. Goodspeed & Co.. pp. 52–57. http://books.google.com/books?id=0FJLAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA52. Retrieved 2008-02-17.
- ^ http://www.nationalacademy.org/pageview.asp?mid=1&pid=56
- ^ a b Verplanck, Gulian C. An Address, Delivered at the Opening of the Tenth Exhibition of the American Academy of the Fine Arts (Charles Wiley : New York, 1824) "Officers and Directors for 1824". List of academicians, p. 59
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