| Now more than 100 years old, the Woodstock art colony has been intimately associated with a group of progressive modern American artists. It was the site of the Art Students League summer school from 1906-1922 and gain from 1947-1979. It therefore, comes as no surprise that most of the artists most prominently associated with Woodstock are also associated with the Art Students League as teachers or pupils. This exhibition is drawn heavily from works collected by Joseph and Marjorie Relkin. In their collection of Woodstock artists, the Relkins particularly focused on work of Brooklyn born Marion Greenwood. Greenwood first went to Woodstock with her artist-father in 1920 at the age of eleven. Throughout her career, she returned to and exhibited at Woodstock. She also studied at the Art Students League (beginning at age fourteen) and found many of her closest friends and colleagues there. She had an interest in exotic and ethnic subjects, which led her to Mexico, where she came to the attention of Diego Rivera, and Jose Clemente Orozco. That association led to her gaining the first mural commission for an American woman from a foreign government. We hope you will enjoy this survey of Greenwood, Woodstock, the Art Students League and their artists. |
