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. Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the United States, the most densely populated major city in North America, and is at the center of international finance, politics, entertainment, and culture. ... A museum is typically a non-profit, permanent institution in the service of society and of its development, open to the public, which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits, for purposes of study, education enjoyment, the tangible and intangible evidence of people and their environment. ...

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”. Samuel F. B. Morse Samuel Finley Breese Morse (April 27, 1791 – April 2, 1872) was an American inventor, and painter of portraits and historic scenes. ... Asher Brown Durand (1796 - 1886) was a U.S. painter of Hudson River School. ... Categories: Stub | 1801 births | 1848 deaths | Cole | United States painters ...

It houses a public collection of over five thousand works of nineteenth and twentieth century American art. Americas first well-known school of painting—the Hudson River School—appeared in 1820. ...

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. Street sign at Fifth Avenue and East 57th street Fifth Avenue is a major thoroughfare in New York City. ...

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
• Edwin Blashfield
• Ernie Bushmiller
• William Merritt Chase
• Frederic Edwin Church
• Charles Harold Davis
• Philip D. Eastman
• Daniel Chester French
• Red Grooms
• 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

Lucy A. Bacon (1858-1932) was a Californian artist who studied in Paris under the famous Impressionist, Camille Pissarro (who was friends with Paul Cézanne), and was the only known California artist to have studied under any of the Great French Impressionists. ... Edwin Howland Blashfield (December 5, 1848 - 1936), American artist, was born in New York City. ... Ernest Paul Ernie Bushmiller, Jr. ... William Merritt Chase (November 1, 1849 - October 25, 1916) was an American painter known as an exponent of Impressionism and as a teacher. ... Frederic Edwin Church (May 4, 1826 - April 7, 1900) was an American landscape painter born in Hartford, Connecticut. ... Charles Harold Davis (7 January 1856 (or 2 February 1857) - 5 August 1933) was an American landscape painter. ... Philip Dey Eastman (October 25, 1909--1986) was a screenwriter and childrens author. ... Daniel Chester French Daniel Chester French (April 20, 1850 – October 7, 1931) was an American sculptor. ... Red Grooms (born Charles Rogers Grooms on June 7, 1937) is an American multimedia artist best known for his colorful pop-art constructions depicting frenetic scenes of modern urban life. ... Edward Lamson Henry (January 12, 1841 - 1919), American genre painter, was born in Charleston, South Carolina. ... Syd Hoff (1912 – May 12, 2004) was an American children’s book author and cartoonist. ... Charles Keck (September 9, 1875 _ April 23, 1951) was an American sculptor, born in New York City. ... Washington Crossing the Delaware Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze (May 24, 1816-July 18, 1868) was a German-born American painter. ... Evelyn Beatrice Longman c. ... Dancing Bacchante with an Infant Faun: fountain at the Boston Public Library Frederick William Macmonnies (Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn September 28, 1863 - New York March 22,1937) was the best known expatriate American sculptor of the Beaux-Arts school, as successful and lauded in France as he was in the United... Jacques Maroger (1884 - 1962) was a painter and the technical director of the Louvre Museums laboratory in Paris, France. ... Jervis McEntee (July 14, 1828 - January 27, 1891) was a American painter of the Hudson River School. ... Gari Melchers or Julius Melchers (August 11, 1860 - 1932) was an American artist. ... Henry Siddons Mowbray (August 5, 1858 - 1928) was an American artist. ... Thomas Nast (September 27, 1840–December 7, 1902) was a famous caricaturist and editorial cartoonist in the 19th century and is considered to be the father of American political cartooning. ... Pep Comics #1 (January 1940), the first appearance of The Shield Irv Novick (1916-October 15, 2004) was an American comic book artist who worked almost continuously from 1939 until the late 1990s. ... William Page (3 January 1811 in Albany, New York-1 October 1885 in Tottenville, Staten Island, New York) was an American painter and portrait artist. ... Categories: People stubs | 1853 births | 1897 deaths ... Charles Ethan Porter ( 1840 - 1923), African American, still life, painter. ... Mary Elizabeth Price (1 March 1877 - 19 February 1965) was an American impressionist painter, born in Martinsburg, West Virginia. ... An example of Alexander Phimister Proctors work On the Warpath, Denver, CO Alexander Phimister Proctor (September 27, 1862 – September 4, 1950) was an American sculptor and one of her foremost animaliers, born in Bozanquit, Ontario, his family moved to Denver, Colorado when he was young. ... Norman Rockwell Norman Rockwell (February 3, 1894 – November 8, 1978) was an early 20th century American painter. ... Augustus Saint Gaudens, 1905 Augustus Saint-Gaudens (Dublin, March 1, 1848 - Cornish, New Hampshire, August 3, 1907), was the Irish born American sculptor of the Beaux Arts generation who most embodied the ideals of the American Renaissance. ... Walter Satterlee (January 18, 1844 - May 28, 1908) was an American figure and genre painter. ... William Steig (November 14, 1907 - October 3, 2003) was a prolific American cartoonist and, later in life, an author of popular childrens literature. ... Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait (February 5, 1819 _ April 28, 1905), American artist, was born near Liverpool, England. ... Sand Dunes at Sunset, Atlantic City by Henry Tanner Henry Ossawa Tanner (June 21, 1859–May 25, 1937) was one of the first important African American painters. ... Lous Comfort Tiffany, circa 1908. ... John Trumbull, 1756–1843 John Trumbull (June 6, 1756 – November 10, 1843), was a famous American artist from the time of the American Revolutionary War. ... An unobtrusive bridge in Central Park, designed by Calvert Vaux, separates pedestrians from the carriage drive. ... Robert William Vonnoh (September 17, 1858 – 1933) was an American Impressionist painter known for his portraits and landscapes. ... J.Q.A. Wards statue of George Washington (1882) in front of Federal Hall, New York John Quincy Adams Ward ( June 29, 1830 – 1910) was an American sculptor, who is most familiar for his colossal standing statue of Washington (illustration, right) on the steps of Federal Hall in Wall...

See also

• List of museums and cultural institutions in New York City

The Metropolitan Museum of Art African Burial Ground American Folk Art Museum American Museum of the Moving Image American Museum of Natural History Hayden Planetarium (the Rose Center for Earth and Space) Bartow-Pell Mansion Brooklyn Academy of Music Brooklyn Botanic Gardens Brooklyn Museum Carnegie Hall Center for Architecture Cooper...

External links

• National Academy website