The National Academy of Design, in New York, (often termed simple The National Academy) is an honorary association of American artists, with a museum and aschool of fine arts .

It was founded in 1825 by Samuel F. B. Morse, Asher B. Durand, Thomas Cole and others “to promote the fine arts in America through instruction and exhibition”.

It houses a public collection of over five thousands works of nineteenth and twentieth century American art .

It has had several homes over the years, but is now on Fifth Avenue and 89th Street .

The School offers Studio tuition, Master Classes, Intensive Critiques, various Workshops and Lunchtime Lectures. Scholarships are available.

Members of the National Academy of Design

Some of the better-known members of the Academy have included:

• Edwin Blashfield
• Ernie Bushmiller
• William Merritt Chase
• Frederic Edwin Church
• Charles Harold Davis
• Philip D. Eastman
• Daniel Chester French
• Red Grooms
• Edward Lamson Henry
• Syd Hoff
• Charles Keck
• Emanuel Leutze
• Evelyn Beatrice Longman
• Frederick William Macmonnies
• Jacques Maroger
• Jervis McEntee
• Gari Melchers
• Henry Siddons Mowbray
• Thomas Nast
• Irv Novick
• William Lamb Picknell
• Charles Ethan Porter
• Mary Elizabeth Price
• Alexander Phimister Proctor
• Norman Rockwell
• Augustus Saint-Gaudens
• Walter Satterlee
• William Steig
• Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait
• Henry Ossawa Tanner
• Louis Comfort Tiffany
• John Trumbull
• Calvert Vaux
• Robert Vonnoh
• John Quincy Adams Ward

External links

• National Academy website