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The National Academy of Design, in New York City , now called simply, The National Academy, is an honorary association of American Artist s, with a Museum and a School of Fine Arts .

It was founded in 1825 by Samuel F. B. Morse , Asher B. Durand , Thomas Cole , and others “to promote the fine arts in America through instruction and exhibition”.

The academy houses a public Collection of over five thousand works of nineteenth and twentieth century American Art .

It has had several homes over the years. Notably among them, in a building built during 1863-1865, of Gothic Revival style that was modeled on the Doge's Palace in Venice . Since 1942 the academy has occupied a mansion that was the former home of sculptor Anna Hyatt Huntington and Archer Milton Huntington at Fifth Avenue and Eighty-ninth Street.

The school offers studio instruction, master classes, intensive critiques, various workshops, and lunchtime lectures. Scholarships are available. buildings modeled on the Doge's Palace ]]


MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN

Members of the National Academy are denoted by "N. A.", and one cannot apply for membership. Some of the better-known members of the Academy have included:



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