National Academy of Design
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The National Academy of Design, in New York City, now called simply 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”.
It houses a public collection of over five thousand works of nineteenth and twentieth century American art.
It has had several homes over the years, but since 1942 has occupied the former mansion of Archer Milton Huntington and his sculptor wife Anna Hyatt Huntington at Fifth Avenue and 89th Street.
The School offers Studio tuition, Master Classes, Intensive Critiques, various Workshops and Lunchtime Lectures. Scholarships are available.
Members of the National Academy of Design
Some of the better-known members of the Academy have included:
- Lucy Bacon
- William Bliss Baker
- Edwin Blashfield
- Ernie Bushmiller
- William Merritt Chase
- Frederic Edwin Church
- Charles Harold Davis
- Philip D. Eastman
- E. Charlton Fortune
- Daniel Chester French
- Red Grooms
- Armin Hansen
- Edward Lamson Henry
- Syd Hoff
- Charles Keck
- Emanuel Leutze
- Evelyn Beatrice Longman
- Frederick William Macmonnies
- Jacques Maroger
- Jervis McEntee
- Gari Melchers
- Henry Siddons Mowbray
- Thomas Nast
- Irv Novick
- William Page
- William Lamb Picknell
- Charles Ethan Porter
- Mary Elizabeth Price
- Alexander Phimister Proctor
- Norman Rockwell
- Augustus Saint-Gaudens
- Walter Satterlee
- William Steig
- Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait
- Henry Ossawa Tanner
- Louis Comfort Tiffany
- John Trumbull
- Calvert Vaux
- Robert Vonnoh
- John Quincy Adams Ward
- Nelson Shanks
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