Art Students League of Los Angeles was a modernist painting school that operated in Los Angeles, California from 1906 to 1953.
Among its students were painters Nicholas P. Brigante, Mabel Alvarez, Herman Cherry, Stanton Macdonald-Wright and Rex Slinkard; illustrators Conrad Buff, Pruett Carter and Paul Sample; architects Harwell Hamilton Harris and Chalfant Head; and artists who worked on Hollywood films, such as Carl Anderson, John Huston and Dorothy Jeakins.[1]
The League had a pattern of hiring its own—many of its instructors and most of its directors were alumni. It suspended classes during World War II, and had a short-lived revival after the war.
- ^ Julia Armstrong-Totten, "The Legacy of the Art Student League," in Julia Armstrong-Totten, et al., A Seed of Modernism: The Art Students League of Los Angeles, 1906–1953, exhibition catalogue, Pasadena Museum of California Art. 2008.