Master Class in Figure Drawing - Softcover

Hale, Robert Beverly

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0823030148 ISBN 13: 9780823030149

Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications Inc.,U.S., 1991

Synopsis

Robert Beverly Hale was recognized as America's greatest teacher of figure drawing and artistic anatomy, and this book collects his famous lectures to his classes at the Art Students League of New York. The book explores each part of the human body: rib cage, pelvis, upper leg, knee, lower leg, foot, shoulder girdle, upper arm, lower arm, hand, neck, skull, and face. Each significant point in the text is illustrated by a masterpiece of figure drawing. Included are 118 examples by such masters as Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Rubens, Durer, Raphael, Tiepolo and others.

About this title

About the Author

Robert Beverly Hale was Curator Emeritus of the American Painting and Sculpture Department at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. For forty years, he was instructor of artistic anatomy at the Art Students League. He also served as Adjunct Professor of Drawing at Columbia University and Professor of Art at Cooper Union. Hale was the author of Drawing Lessons from the Great Masters and co-author of Anatomy Lessons from the Great Masters. Terence Coyle teaches figure painting and drawing at the Art Students League of New York and is the lecturer in Artistic Anatomy at the National Academy of Design School of Fine Arts in New York City. Coyle's paintings have been highly acclaimed and are in important collections throughout the country including the Museum of the City of New York; the New York State Museum in Albany; the Museum of Performing Arts, Billy Rose Theatre Collection; Fordham University; and, among other notables, in the collection of Ms. Helen Hayes. He co-authored with Robert Beverly Hale Anatomy Lessons from the Great Masters and Albinus on Anatomy.

Edition details

• Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications Inc.,U.S.
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0823030148
• ISBN 13: 9780823030149
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144
• Editor: Coyle Terence