Art Students
Louis Lang American
By the late 1860s, educational opportunities in New York for women artists had expanded from private lessons with established painters to schools, notably the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, established in 1859, and the Ladies’ Art Association, launched in 1867. In this work, seven industrious students pursue painting, drawing, and sculpture in an unidentified, skylit studio filled with artistic bric-a-brac. Lang meticulously details the necessary supplies for professional training, including print portfolios, a paint-laden palette, plaster sculptures, architectural fragments, and easels.
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