The National Academy of Design is an honorary association of

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s, founded in

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in 1825 by Samuel Morse,

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, Thomas Cole,

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Charles Cushing Wright Charles Cushing Wright (born 1 May 1796, in Damariscotta, Maine, died 7 June 1857, in New York City) was an American engraver and medalist. In 1825 he was a founding member of the National Academy of Design. Art Wright was first apprenticed to a ...

, Ithiel Town, and others "to promote the fine arts in America through instruction and exhibition." Membership is limited to 450 American artists and architects, who are elected by their peers on the basis of recognized excellence.

History

The original founders of the National Academy of Design were students of the American Academy of the Fine Arts. However, by 1825 the students of the American Academy felt a lack of support for teaching from the academy, its board composed of merchants, lawyers, and physicians, and from its unsympathetic president, the painter

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. Samuel Morse and other students set about forming "the drawing association", to meet several times each week for the study of the art of design. Still, the association was viewed as a dependent organization of the American Academy, from which they felt neglected. An attempt was made to reconcile differences and maintain a single academy by appointing six of the artists from the association as directors of the American Academy. When four of the nominees were not elected, however, the frustrated artists resolved to form a new academy and the National Academy of Design was born. Morse had been a student at the

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and emulated its structure and goals for the National Academy of Design. The mission of the academy, from its foundation, was to "promote the fine arts in America through exhibition and education."Historical Overview
National Academy of Design. In 2015, the academy struggled with financial hardship. In the next few years, it closed its museum and art school, and created an endowment through the sale of its New York real estate holdings. Today, the academy advocates for the arts as a tool for education, celebrates the role of artists and architects in public life, and serves as a catalyst for cultural conversations that propel society forward. According to the academy, its 450 National Academicians "are professional artists and architects who are elected to membership by their peers annually."

Official names

After three years and some tentative names, in 1828 the academy found its longstanding name "National Academy of Design", under which it was known to one and a half centuries. In 1997, newly appointed director Annette Blaugrund

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the institution as the "National Academy Museum and School of Fine Art", to reflect "a new spirit of integration incorporating the association of artists, museum, and school", and to avoid confusion with the now differently understood term "

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". This change was reversed in 2017. * 1825 The New York Drawing Association * 1826 The National Academy of The Arts of Design * 1828 The National Academy of Design * 1997 The National Academy Museum and School of Fine Art * 2017 The National Academy of Design

Locations

The academy occupied several locations in

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over the years. Notable among them was a building on

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and 23rd Street designed by architect P. B. Wight and built 1863–1865 in a

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style modeled on the

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. Another location was at West 109th Street and Amsterdam Avenue.Cassell, Dewey, with Aaron Sultan and Mike Gartland. ''The Art of George Tuska'' (

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, 2005), , p. 10 From 1906 to 1941, the academy occupied the American Fine Arts Society building at 215 West 57th Street. From 1942 to 2019, the academy occupied a mansion on

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and Eighty-ninth Street, the former home of sculptor Anna Hyatt Huntington and

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, who donated the house in 1940. Currently, the National Academy of Design shares offices and galleries with the

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located inside the historic

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, 14-15 Gramercy Park South.

Organization and activities

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The academy is a professional honorary organization, with a school and a museum. One cannot apply for membership, which since 1994, after many changes in numbers, is limited to 450 American artists and architects. Instead, members are elected by their peers on the basis of recognized excellence. Full members of the National Academy are identified by the post-nominal "NA" (National Academician), associates by "ANA". At the heart of the National Academy is their ever-growing collection. Academicians choose and contribute a work of their own creation, building upon the academy's distinguished legacy. Today, their permanent collection totals over 8,000 works and tells a singular history of American art and architecture as constructed by its creators. The Academy organizes major exhibitions and loans their works to leading institutions around the world, in addition to providing resources that foster scholarship across disciplines.

Notable instructors

Among the teaching staff were numerous artists, including

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, who taught from 1889 to 1892. Another was Charles Louis Hinton, whose long tenure started in 1901. The famous American poet William Cullen Bryant also gave lectures. Architect Alexander Jackson Davis taught at the academy. Painter Lemuel Wilmarth was the first full-time instructor.

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was a curator.

Notable members

Annual Reception at the National Academy of Design, New York

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* James Henry Beard * Edwin Blashfield *

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* Walker O. Cain * John F. Carlson * Vija Celmins *

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* Richard Diebenkorn *

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* Eliot Noyes *

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