George Bridgman

George Brant Bridgman RCA (November 5, 1864 – December 16, 1943)[1] was a Canadian-American painter, writer, and teacher in the fields of anatomy and figure drawing.

[2][3] In his youth, Bridgman studied the arts under painter and sculptor Jean-Léon Gérôme at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and later with Gustave Boulanger.

[1] For most of his life Bridgman lived in the United States where he taught anatomy and figure drawing at the Art Students League of New York (from 1898 until 1900, and then 1903 until October 1943).

Bridgman had also taught classes at the Grand Central School of Art and at the American Bank Note Company.

Roughly 70,000 students studied with Bridgman in his many years teaching,[4][9] notable artists include: McClelland Barclay,[10] Emily Newton Barto,[11] C. C. Beall, Gifford Beal,[12] Elizabeth Cady Stanton Blake,[13] Rosina Cox Boardman,[14] Bessie Callender,[15] Dane Chanase,[16] Richard V. Culter, Chon Day, Joseph Delaney,[1][17] Elsie Driggs,[18] Eyre de Lanux,[19] Helen Winslow Durkee,[20] Will Eisner, Edward McNeil Farmer,[21] Elias Goldberg, Marion Greenwood,[13][22] Robert Beverly Hale,[23] Lorenzo Homar, Clark Hulings, Louis Paul Jonas,[24] Jack Kamen, Deane Keller, Lee Krasner,[25] Richard Lahey,[26] Andrew Loomis, Anita Malfatti, Paul Manship,[27] Frank McCarthy, Evelyn Metzger, Earl Moran, John Cullen Murphy, Kimon Nicolaïdes, Corrado Parducci,[28] Norman Raeben, Frank J. Reilly, Joseph Emile Renier,[29] Ulysses Ricci, Ernie Schroeder, Archie Boyd Teater, Allie Tennant,[30] John Vassos, Franklin Brooke Voss, Edmund Ward,[1] Mahonri Young,[31] and William Zorach.