Will Barnet, Portrait of Djoroje Milicevic, 1967, oil Leo Manos, After the Storm, 1977, oil on canvas

Art Students League of New York:
Highlights from the Permanent Collection
May 26-July 22, 2007

Preview Party
Friday, May 25
5:30-7:30 p.m.

Talk by Ira Goldberg, Executive Director of the Art Students League of New York
Members $15
Non-members $20

Satureday, May 26
1:00 p.m. Talk by Ira Goldberg
2:00-4:00 p.m. Free Opening Reception

Since 1876, the Art Students League of New York has occupied a place in the first rank of American art schools. Established by American artists freshly returned from the great academies of Europe, the League sought to bring the latest international styles to a rising generation of painters and sculptors. In turn, these young men and women spread League teaching to nearly every corner of the United States. The Southern Vermont Arts Center benefited directly from this phenomenon, for most of its founders and many of its early members were League graduates.

This special traveling exhibition draws on the permanent collection of the Art Students League of New York to showcase the work of its many distinguished faculty and alumni. Artists represented include charismatic instructor William Merritt Chase and his gifted pupil, Georgia O’Keeffe, whose beautiful still life in the French tradition offers new insights into her training. The great American Scene painter (and early Arts Center member), Reginald Marsh, is also featured, as is his teacher, Kenneth Hayes Miller, founder of the Fourteenth Street School. Nearly every important development in American art, from Impressionistic works of the late nineteenth century to abstract and contemporary pieces from the late twentieth, will be covered. In addition to sixty-nine paintings, watercolors and prints, five pieces of sculpture will round out the presentation.

This show sponsored in part by: Sherry and Glenn Firestone, Joyce and John Phelan, Kate and Ray Rudy, Christie Salomon, Mindy and Jack Castles, Lila and Gil Silverman, Alison and Michael Stott, Sylvia and Stan Stoup, Dottie and John Thatcher and Whit and Roby Harrigton

William Merritt Chase, Fish Still Life, 1908, oil on canvas