ABSTRACT
New york city’s appeal to artists is well known. Among its attractions are museums and private art galleries; the concentration of artists in all of the arts and the challenge, pressure, and stimulation of the newest and liveliest culture. Vanguard artists in New York organized themselves with relative ease because most lived in the same neighborhood in Manhattan: a low-rent area downtown in and around a belt between Eighth and Twelfth streets on the south and north, and First and Sixth avenues on the east and west. The school closed in May 1949, and the space was taken over by three professors in New York University’s Department of Art Education to provide additional studio space for their students, among whom were Goodnough, Leslie, and Rivers. In 1951, several charter members of the Club decided to present the painting and sculpture of the New York School to the public. The sense of community was carried outside the school.
