National Academy Museum and School

The National Academy of Design in New York City, today simply The National Academy, is a traditional association American artist who also maintains a museum and an art school.

Location

The National Academy of Design is part of the Museum Mile, located in the Upper East Side in New York City borough of Manhattan on Fifth Avenue and 89th Street.

History

Founded in 1825 by the Academy Samuel FB Morse, Asher Brown Durand, Thomas Cole and a few other to support the visual arts in America through education and exhibition opportunities. The collection of the Academy now comprises more than five thousand working American of the 19th and 20th century art.

The Academy was housed over the years in different houses, including one in 1863 to 1865, built in the Gothic style house, which was modeled after the Palace of the Doges of Venice. Today she resides in the former house of the sculptor Anna Hyatt Huntington and her husband Archer Milton Huntington.

Members of the National Academy of Design

All members get the unofficial title name " NA ", where you yourself can not apply for membership, but must be proposed. Among the best known members of the association were:

Samuel Morse Harry Siddons Mowbray Augustus Saint-Gaudens
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