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Art Students League
www.theartstudentsleague.org
The Art Students League of New York was founded in 1875 by a group of art students who hoped to escape the Academy by founding a member-run art school designed for and run by independent artists. For nearly 150 years, the Art Students League has been a haven for countless artists, who use the freedom it affords them to explore diverse artistic practices, methodologies, and mediums while developing a mastery of traditional techniques. Frank Mason’s contributions to this great institution were immense as one of the longest running instructors to have studied and taught at the League. His mentor, Frank Vincent Dumond, and Mason’s time instructing at the League span for over a century in the same Studio 7. To this day his former students, Tom Torak and John Varriano, have continued to educate aspiring art students by passing down the same techniques that have been continued for five generations.
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