Anatomy Lessons from the Great Masters is my favorite book on artistic anatomy. Paul Richer), and “Anatomy Lessons from the Great Masters” (with Terence Coyle).Īll of them are excellent. Hale was the author or co-author of some of the best books ever written on figure drawing and artistic anatomy: “Drawing Lessons from the Great Masters: 100 Great Drawings Analyzed, Figure Drawing Fundamentals Defined, Master Class in Figure Drawing, Artistic Anatomy (with Dr. I began to realize just how good he was when I started to pick up his books. His lectures, however, left no doubt that you were getting the real goods from someone who knew his subject in extraordinary depth. To me he was just “the anatomy lecture guy”. I was pretty young at the time and unaware of Hale’s status or reputation as a teacher. When I was a student at the Academy I had the privilege of attending Hale’s lectures on artistic anatomy. He was Curator of the American Painting and Sculpture Department at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Instructor of Drawing and Lecturer on Anatomy at The Art Students League in New York, and Lecturer on Anatomy at The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. Hale was probably the foremost teacher of figure drawing and artistic anatomy in America.
Green I found an image of his incisive pastel portrait of Robert Beverly Hale (left).
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