Artist
William Glackens
born Philadelphia, PA 1870-died Westport, CT 1938
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- Also known as
- William J. Glackens
- William James Glackens
- Born
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
- Died
- Westport, Connecticut, United States
- Active in
- New York, New York, United States
- Paris, France
- Biography
Painter, illustrator, and member of The Eight. At the beginning of his career, Glackens painted scenes of middle-class life and used a rich, dark palette; in later years, he favored still lifes and studio scenes, his colors reflecting the influence of Pierre Auguste Renoir.
Joan Stahl American Artists in Photographic Portraits from the Peter A. Juley & Son Collection (Washington, D.C. and Mineola, New York: National Museum of American Art and Dover Publications, Inc., 1995)
Exhibitions
April 17, 2015–August 16, 2015
Integrated within the chronological flow of the museum’s permanent collection, these masterworks from Gilded Age, Impressionist, and Ashcan School painters will help to tell the story of the late 19th century and early 20th centuries in America, a “coming