An Alcove in the Art Students' League

Year	1888
Medium	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	63.5 × 76.2 cm
Type	painting

Curran depicts a sunlit corner of the New York Art Students' League, where a woman in white pauses in the warm light that falls through unseen windows. The intimate interior scene, with its soft shadows and careful observation of light on fabric, is among his finest early works.