For 28 years Frank Reilly was a prominent teacher at the Art Students League of New York. Succeeding George Bridgeman, he taught drawing and painting at the League until the early sixties. His classes were in such high demand the waiting list numbered in the hundreds, and at one point Reilly's classes accounted for half the League's tuition income. He eventually established the Frank J. Reilly School of Art not far from the League. Mr. Reilly developed a complete curriculum for teaching representational art. He left behind over a thousand pages of hand-written lecture notes. A selection of these documents are featured in this blog.





His program produced some of the most successful representational painters and illustrators of the era including Clark Hulings, James Bama, Michael Aviano, George Passantino, Robert Emil Schulz, Jerry Allison, Carl Hantman, Roger Kastel, and many more too numerous to mention. read more