![]() Brewster Reference Number 1950.1514 IIIF Manifest ![]() CURRAN 88" Dimensions 21.6 × 29.2 cm (8 1/2 × 11 1/2 in.) Credit Line Bequest of Kate L. (circa) or BCE.ġ888 Medium Oil on canvas Inscriptions signed, lower left: "CHAS. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. ![]() Status On View, Gallery 177 Department Arts of the Americas Artist Charles Courtney Curran Title An Alcove in the Art Students' League Place New York City (Place depicted) Dateĭates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. ![]() Once students mastered drawing antique and antique-inspired sculptures, they would have advanced to a class with live models. In the 19th century Night would not only have served as an effective demonstration of the art of antiquity but would also have represented one of the more difficult poses to illustrate. Students worked from casts of Greek and Roman sculptures, as well as from reproductions of classically inspired Renaissance objects, such as Michelangelo’s allegorical sculpture Night from the tomb of Giuliano de’Medici, which occupies the lower left corner of this painting. Here male and female students practice rendering the idealized human form. Charles Courtney Curran documented the atmosphere and activity of the Art Students’ League in New York, where he studied and later taught. ![]()
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