Woodstock School of Landscape Painting (Images and Programs)

By Bruce Weber

This month's post celebrates the opening of the exhibition In the Open Air: The Art Students League's Woodstock School of Landscape Painting which runs from October 11th-December 13th at the Woodstock School of Art.

The following images complement the essay text for the beautiful catalog designed by Susanna Ronner. The publication is available for sale at the school for $25. Copies can also be ordered through the mail (for information on purchasing through mailing visit the event listing for the exhibition on the Woodstock School of Art's website).

PROGRAMS FOR IN THE OPEN AIR

Gallery Talk,

Sunday, October 26^th, 2 p.m.

Panel and Book Signing:

“An Anniversary Celebration of Woodstock and the Art Students League of New York,”

Saturday,

November 8^th, 2 p.m.

With artists Bruce Dorfman, Paula Nelson and Richard Pantell, Stephanie Cassidy, Head of Research and Archives, Art Students League of New York,

and moderated by Bruce Weber

Gallery Talk

November 30^th, 2 p.m.

Advertisement for Woodstock Summer School, Brush and Pencil 17 (May 1906): 12

Announcement for first year of the League's summer school in Woodstock.

Alfred Cohn (1897-1972)

The Old Woodstock Inn [Artists by the Old Village Green], c. 1915-1920

Postcard Collection, Historical Society

of Woodstock

The village of Woodstock inundated

with art students.

Unknown Photographer

John F. Carlson’s Class at Woodstock School of Landscape Painting, c. 1915

Gelatin silver print

Woodstock Artists Association Archives

One of John F. Carlson's large

summer classes.

Students Going Out to the Fields, by 1916

       Summer School of the Art

Students League

(New York: Art Students League, 1916): n.p.

Art students in Woodstock going out

to paint and receive instruction.

 Samuel Brown Wylie (1882-1962)

  Walter  “Pop” Goltz Critiquing Student, c. 1915

 Historical Society of Woodstock

Walter Gollz, artist and assistant to John F. Carlson, helping a student in the field.

Studio of the Woodstock School of Landscape Painting, by 1916

Summer School of the Art Students League (New York: Art Students League, 1916): n.p.

The League's summer school studio on Tinker Street, now home of the Church

of Christ, Scientist.

Saturday Critique in Studio of

Woodstock School of Landscape Painting,

by 1916

Summer School of the Art Students League

(New York: Art Students League, 1916): n.p.

Students receiving Saturday critique from John F. Carlson at the League studio

in Woodstock.

Konrad Cramer (1888-1963)

Rosie Magee of Rock City, c. 1915

Gelatin silver print

Konrad and Florence Ballin Collection,

Historical Society of Woodstock

Rosie Magee, the ministering angel of the early Woodstock art colony.

Unknown Photographer

Rock City Group Across from

Rosie Magee’s House, c. 1912

Anita M. Smith Collection

From Left: Frank Swift Chase, Florence Balllin Cramer, Ned Chase, Henry Lee McFee. Marion Bullard, Unknown

Some members of the Rock City Group of artists congregating around Rock City Road and Glasco Turnpike.

Andrew Dasburg (1887-1979)

Cornfield, 1908

Location Unknown

Sunshine Club member Andrew Dasburg's experiment with the effects of bright sushine.

Norbert Heerman,

"Modernists Capture Woodstock Display,”

American Art News 20 (August 19, 1922):  4

Artistic conflict at the Woodstock Art Association in the summer of 1922.

George Bellows (1882-1925)

Four Friends, 1921

Lithograph on paper

New York State Museum,

The Historic Woodstock Art Colony: 

Arthur A. Anderson Collection

From Left: George Bellows, Leon Kroll,

Eugene Speicher and Robert Henri

Artists who served as instructors in 1921 at Art Students League’s summer school.

Advertisement: The Woodstock School of Painting and Allied Arts

Hue and Cry 1 (July 21, 1923): n.p.

Historical Society of Woodstock

New Opportunities for art instruction in Woodstock following closing of Art

Students League summer school in 1922.

Instructors at the Art Students Leage Summer School Gallery in Woodstock, 1969

From left: Bruce Dorfman, Robert Angeloch, Richard Mayhew, Walter Plate

and William Pachner

Photograph of instructors in 1969 of the summer school of the Art Students League,

The League returned to Woodstock from 1947-1979. Bruce Dorfman, Robert Angeloch,

Richard Mayhew and William Pachner taught landscape painting in this era.

Abstract painter Walter Plate appears fourth from left.

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Richard Mayhew (1924-2024)

Tree, 2015

Pencil on paper

Collection of Ina Mayhew

A drawing created in 2015 by Richard Mayhew during the course of a visit to his daughter Ina, who resides in the area. Stylistically the drawing recalls the work of the early Tonalist landscape

painters who were affiiated with the Woodstock School of Landscape Painting.