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The National Academy of Design, in New York City, now called simply, The National Academy, is an honorary association of American artists, with a museum and a school 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”.

The academy houses a public collection of over five thousand works of nineteenth and twentieth century American art.

It has had several homes over the years. Notably among them, in a building built during 1863-1865, of Gothic Revival style that was modeled on the Doge's Palace in Venice. Since 1942 the academy has occupied a mansion that was the former home of sculptor Anna Hyatt Huntington and Archer Milton Huntington at Fifth Avenue and Eighty-ninth Street.

The school offers studio instruction, master classes, intensive critiques, various workshops, and lunchtime lectures. Scholarships are available.
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National Academy of Design (1863-65), one of many Gothic Revival buildings modeled on the Doge's Palace

Members of the National Academy of Design

Members of the National Academy are denoted by "N. A.", and one cannot apply for membership. Some of the better-known members of the Academy have included:

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The definition of an artist is wide-ranging and covers a broad spectrum of activities to do with creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. Debate, both historical and present day, suggests that defining the concept of an artist will continue to be difficult.
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museum is a "permanent institution in the service of society and of its development, open to the public, which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits, for purposes of study, education, enjoyment, the tangible and intangible
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school is an institution where students (or "pupils") learn while under the supervision of teachers. In most systems of formal education, students progress through a series of schools: primary school, secondary school, and possibly a university ,
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Fine art refers to arts that are concerned with a limited number of visual and performing art forms, including painting, sculpture, dance, theatre, architecture and printmaking.
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Samuel Finley Breese Morse (April 27, 1791 – April 2, 1872) was an American painter of portraits and historic scenes, the creator of a single wire telegraph system, and co-inventor, with Alfred Vail, of the Morse Code. [1]

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Asher Brown Durand (August 21, 1796 - September 17, 1886) was a U.S. painter of the Hudson River School. He was born in Maplewood, New Jersey (then called Jefferson Village), the eighth of eleven children; his father was a watchmaker and a silversmith.
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Thomas Cole

Thomas Cole, ca. 1844-48
January 1 1801(1801--)
Bolton, Lancashire, England
January 11 1848 (aged 47)
Catskill, New York
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Visual arts of the United States refers to the history of painting and visual art in the United States. In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, artists primarily painted landscapes and portraits in a realistic style.
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Gothic Revival was an architectural movement which originated in mid-18th century England. In the nineteenth century, increasingly serious and learned neo-Gothic styles sought to revive medieval forms, in distinction to the classical styles which were prevalent at the time.
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Doge's Palace is a gothic palace in Venice (Italian Palazzo Ducale di Venezia). The current palace was largely constructed from 1309 to 1424 on 9th century origins, designed perhaps by Filippo Calendario.
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Anna Vaughn Hyatt Huntington (March 10 1876 – October 4 ,1973) was an American sculptor. She was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Her father, Alpheus Hyatt, was a professor of paleontology and zoology at Harvard University and MIT, a contributing factor
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Archer Milton Huntington (March 10 1870 – December 11 1955) was the step-son of railroad magnate, Collis P. Huntington. Archer Huntington is best known for his scholarly works in the field of Hispanic Studies and for founding The Hispanic Society of America in New York City.
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Fifth Avenue is a major thoroughfare in the center of the borough of Manhattan in New York City. Lined with expensive park-view real estate and historical mansions, it is a symbol of wealthy New York.
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Edwin Howland Blashfield (December 5, 1848 - October 12, 1936), an American artist, was born in New York City.

He was a pupil of Bonnat in Paris beginning in 1867, and became (1888) a member of the National Academy of Design in New York.
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Lee Bontecou is an American artist who was born January 15, 1931 in Providence, Rhode Island. She attended New York's Arts Students League from 1952 to 1955 where she studied with the sculptor William Zorach.
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Vija Celmins (b. October 25, 1938, Riga, Latvia) is an American artist.

Vija Celmins immigrated to the United States with her family from Latvia when she was ten years old. She and her family settled in Indiana.
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William Merritt Chase (November 1, 1849 – October 25, 1916) was an American painter known as an exponent of Impressionism and as a teacher.

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He was born in Williamsburg (now Nineveh), Indiana, to the family of a local merchant.
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Frederic Edwin Church (May 4, 1826 – April 7, 1900) was an American landscape painter born in Hartford, Connecticut. He was a central figure in the Hudson River School of American landscape painters.
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Chuck Close

Birth name Charles Thomas Close
July 05 1940 (1940--) (age 67)
- Monroe, Washington

photorealistic painter, photographer
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Charles Harold Davis (7 January 1856 – 5 August 1933) was an American landscape painter.

He was born at Amesbury, Massachusetts. A pupil of the schools of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, he was sent to Paris in 1880.
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Thomas Eakins

Self portrait (1902), National Academy of Design, New York. In 1894 the artist wrote: "My honors are misunderstanding, persecution & neglect, enhanced because unsought.
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Lydia Field Emmet (1866 - August 16, 1952) was an American artist possibly best recalled for her portrait work.

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Born in New Rochelle, New York, she was the seventh child of ten siblings.[1].
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Helen Frankenthaler (born December 12, 1928) is an American post-painterly abstraction artist. Born in New York City, she was influenced by Jackson Pollock with whom she also was involved in the 1946-1960 Abstract Art Movement.
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Daniel Chester French (April 20 1850 – October 7 1931) was an American sculptor. His best-known work is the sculpture of a seated Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
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Frank Gehry

The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain
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Name Frank Gehry
Nationality  Canada
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Birth date January 28 1929 (1929--)
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