Sentences with phrase «attended figure drawing classes»

After graduating from high school, Burr attended figure drawing classes at the Art Students League in New York.

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Of course, as art historian Linda Nochlin famously observed, it was difficult for women to paint nudes when historically they weren't even allowed to attend figure - drawing classes because of the naked people necessarily present.

And in them we see the recognizable and intact trace of his teacher Hans Hofmann, whose life drawing classes he attended in Provincetown, MA and whose ideas about form and figure / ground he absorbed before discarding.