Paintings from the National Academy of Design – The first exhibition

Paintings from the National Academy of Design Museum is the first exhibition to highlight a key aspect of the National Academy of Design collection. This is the joint presentation of a portrait of an artist and his or her thesis.

The American Federation of the Arts (AFA) is glad to announce the National Tour for America: Pictures from the National Academy of Design. This is an exhibition created in collaboration with the National Academy of Design (NAD). For America is the first exhibition to highlight a fundamental feature of the National Academy of Sciences collection: the joint presentation of a portrait of an artist with his or his representative work.

The Hundred Unusual United States Paintings of the exhibition represent not only a visual document of membership in the Academy but also the unique history of American painting from 1809 to the present day. The exhibition will visit eight venues across the United States, presenting important paintings to audiences across the country, and will enrich the dialogue of academics, students, and artists of all ages by experiencing American masterpieces firsthand.

From its founding in 1825 to the nowadays, The National Academy of Design Museum required all academics to donate representative work to the Academy’s collection. And from 1839 to 1994, the National Academy of the Arts also required employees to submit their own hand-drawn portraits.

Artists represented at the exhibition:

• Samuel F. B. Morse;
• Asher B. Durand;
• Frederic Edwin Church;
• John Frederick Kensett;
• Albert Bierstadt;
• Emanuel Leutze;
• Ferdinand Thomas Lee Boyle;
• Edward Harrison May;
• George Henry Hall;
• Daniel Huntington;
• Eastman Johnson;
• Oliver Ingraham Lay;
• Winslow Homer;
• Elihu Vedder;
• Wyatt Eaton;
• William J. Whittemore;
• William Merritt Chase;
• Robert Frederick Blum;
• John Singer Sargent;
• Cecilia Beaux;
• Kenyon Cox;
• Maxfield Parrish;
• Thomas Eakins;
• Robert Reid;
• Childe Hassam;
• Frederick Carl Frieseke;
• J. Alden Weir;
• Albert Pinkham Ryder;
• Richard E. Miller;
• Henry Ossawa Tanner;
• Robert Henri;
• Daniel Garber;
• Gertrude Fiske;
• Mary Shepard Greene Blumenschein;
• Ernest L. Blumenschein;
• Walter Ufer;
• Ellen Emmet Rand;
• Guy C. Wiggins;
• Paul Sample;
• Isabel Bishop;
• Peter Hurd;
• John Steuart Curry;
• N. C. Wyeth;
• Reginald Marsh;
• Aaron Bohrod;
• Andrew Wyeth;
• Ivan Albright;
• Jules Kirschenbaum;
• Philip Pearlstein;
• Jane Freilicher;
• Hughie Lee-Smith;
• George Tooker;
• Richard Estes;
• Lois Dodd;
• May Stevens;
• Charles White;
• Will Barnet;
• Wayne Thiebaud;
• Reuben Tam;
• Rosemarie Beck;
• Paul Resika;
• Gretna Campbell;
• William Clutz;
• Louisa Matthíasdóttir;
• Altoon Sultan;
• W. Lee Savage;
• James McGarrell;
• Emma Amos;
• Benny Andrews;
• David Kapp;
• Jacqueline Gourevitch;
• David Diao;
• Walter Hatke;
• Albert Kresch;
• Ann Gale;
• Jaune Quick-to-See Smith;
• Peter Saul.