<P> From 1906 until 1922, and again after the end of World War II from 1947 until 1979, the League operated a summer school of painting at Woodstock, New York . In 1995, the League's facilities expanded to include the Vytlacil campus in Sparkill, New York, named after and based upon a gift of the property and studio of former instructor Vaclav Vytlacil . </P> <P> Since its inception, the Art Students League has employed notable professional artists as instructors and lecturers . Most engagements have been for a year or two, and some, like those of sculptor George Grey Barnard, were quite brief . </P> <P> Others have taught for decades, notably Frank DuMond and George Bridgman, who taught anatomy for artists and life drawing classes for some 45 years, reportedly to 70,000 students . Bridgman's successor was Robert Beverly Hale . Other longtime instructors included the painters Frank Mason (DuMond's successor, over 50 years), Kenneth Hayes Miller (forty years) from 1911 until 1951, sculptor Nathaniel Kaz (50 years), Peter Golfinopoulos (over 40 years), Knox Martin (over 45 years), Martha Bloom (30 years) and the sculptors William Zorach (30 years), and Jose De Creeft, American impressionist William Merritt Chase (over 20 years), and Will Barnet (50 years) from the 1930s to the 1990s . </P> <P> In 1988, Robert Cenedella took over the George Grosz Chair and presently teaches three courses . </P>

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