Founded in 1875, the Art Students League of New York is America's signature art school, and it has nurtured students like Jackson Pollock and Georgia O'Keefe. Even as you paint in your living room, this book brings you into the studio classrooms of some of the League's foremost painters—including William Scharf, Mary Beth McKenzie, Henry Finkelstein, and Knox Martin—for lessons on a variety of fundamental topics and creative philosophies that can be applied to a wide variety of media.