Art School National Academy
January 19, 1826 - ?
Details
- Category
- School
- Audience
- Adults
- Founder(s)
- Thomas Seir Cummings, Frederick Styles Agate, Thomas Cole, Rembrandt Peale, Ithiel Town, Samuel F. B. Morse, Asher B. Durand, and others
- Tags
- design, art
- Notes
- Moved to 89th St. and 5th Ave. in 1942. Official names: 1825 - The New York Drawing Association; 1826 - The National Academy of The Arts of Design; 1828 - The National Academy of Design; 1997 - The National Academy Museum and School of Fine Art; 2017 - The National Academy of Design Charitable contributions from the Vincent Astor Foundation to the Academy can be found in the Vincent Astor Foundation Records, ca.1900-1998, The New York Public Library. There were twenty-five "primitive founders," but a full list of names is not provided in Cummings book.
Location
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125-199 W 109th St, New York, NY 10025, USA? - 1942
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5th Ave & E 89th St, New York, NY 10128, USA1942 - present
References
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Cummings, T. S. (1865). Historic annals of the National academy of design, New-York drawing association, etc., with occasional dottings by the way-side, from 1825 to the present time. Philadelphia: George W. Childs.