Panel Discussion on Cezanne | New York Studio School

Selections from the archive: "Panel Discussion on Cezanne" with Louis Finkelstein, Andrew Forge, Graham Nickson and Charles Cajori, recorded on December 20, 1996.
Louis Finkelstein (1923 - 2000) was an American painter, art critic and professor. He taught at the Philadelphia College of Art, New York Studio School, and Yale School of Art (where he served as interim dean of the Art School from 1962 to 1964), and he was the head of the art department at Queens College, CUNY for more than 25 years. In 1979, he received the College Art Association's award for distinguished teaching and in 1999, was awarded an honorary doctorate in the fine arts from the Maryland Institute College of Art. Finkelstein received several Fulbright grants, an NEA for painting, and he was a member of the National Academy of Design.
His paintings have been shown at Yale University, the New York Studio School, the Riverside Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Corcoran Gallery and the Pennsylvania Academy.
Andrew Forge (1923 - 2002) was an English painter, academic, and art critic. Forge studied art at the Camberwell School of Art in London, England, under William Coldstream and Victor Pasmore in the 1940s. From 1950 to 1964, Forge was a senior lecturer at the Slade School of Art in central London, where he met Dorothy Mead in the 1950s, a former member of the Borough Group, when she was a mature student at the Slade. He showed with the London Group of artists from as early as 1950. He formally joined the London Group in 1960, the same year as Mead, and was president from 1966 to 1971. He was succeeded as president by Mead. From 1964 to 1970, Forge was Head of the Department of Fine Art at Goldsmiths College in southeast London. From 1971 to 1972, he was a lecturer in the Department of Art at the University of Reading.
Andrew Forge emigrated to the United States and was Visiting Professor at Cooper Union, New York (1973-74), Associate Dean, New York Studio School (1974-75), Visiting Professor (1975-2002). He became Professor of Painting at Yale University (1975-91), Dean of the School of Art (1975-83), and Emeritus William Leffingwell Professor of Painting (1991-94). In 1992, he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member, and became a full Academician in 1994. Forge's work are among collections at the Tate Gallery and other art museums.
Graham Nickson has been a faculty member and Dean of the School since 1988, and is the originator of the renowned Drawing Marathon. Received his BA from the Camberwell School of Arts & Crafts and MA from the Royal College of Art in London. Was based in Italy from 1972-74, and since 1976 has resided in New York. Nickson has worked, taught, traveled and exhibited extensively in the United States and internationally, and is the recipient of the Prix de Rome; The Harkness Fellowship at Yale University; the Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Ingram Merrill Fellowship. Recent solo exhibitions include Graham Nickson: Private Myths at the Naples Museum of Art, FL; Graham Nickson: Works from Private Collections at the Boca Raton Museum of Art, FL, and Meeting and Passing at the Lillehammer Art Museum in Norway. His work is in the permanent collections of many institutions including The Metropolitan Museum of Art; MoMA; The National Gallery of Art, Washington DC; Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, MA; The Albright Knox Gallery, NY; the Neuberger Museum of Art, NY; the Frye Art Museum, WA; the Boca Raton Museum of Art, FL and the Lillehammer Art Museum.
Charles Cajori (1921-2013) was a second-generation Abstract Expressionist painter. His work has been exhibited widely throughout the United States, received many honors and is found in many museum and private collections. In 1952 he and a small group of artists founded the Tanager Gallery on 10th Street in New York City. Cajori was also a founder in 1964 of the New York Studio School.
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