Robert Beverly Hale became a legend as the world’s most famous teacher of artistic anatomy and drawing. For forty years he presented his great lecture series to capacity audiences at the Art Students League of New York. His famous lectures on drawing, illustrated with life-size drawings created by him on the spot, have had an international audience. Hale was also Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and founder of the Twentieth Century Gallery. In addition, he was Adjunct Professor of Drawing at Columbia University, Professor of Art at Cooper Union, and lecturer on anatomy at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Hale is author of the award-winning Drawing Lessons from the Great Masters. His teaching methods and order of presentation of his famous lectures have been preserved in Anatomy Lessons from the Great Masters, co-authored with Terence Coyle, and in Master Class in Figure Drawing, compiled and edited by Coyle, both published by Watson-Guptill Publications.

Terence Coyle carries on the Hale lectures and teaches painting and drawing at the Art Student’s League of New York. For 19 years, Coyle also gave the Hale Lectures at the National Academy of Design, School of Fine Arts in New York. Coyle’s paintings have been highly acclaimed and are in important collections throughout the country. They are included in the Museum of the City of New York, the New York State Museum in Albany, the Museum of Performing Arts, the Billy Rose Theatre Collection; Fordham University, and in the collection of the former “First Lady of the American Theater,” the late Ms. Helen Hayes, among others. Coyle co-authored Albinus on Anatomy with Robert Beverly Hale, and compiled and edited Master Class ill Figure Drawing.