William J. Glackens

Background

Glackens, William J. was born on March 13, 1870 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Finn) Glackens.

Education

Educational public schools. Pupil Pennsylvania Academy Fine Arts, and studied in Europe.

Career

By paintings The Art Institute of Chicago of Chicago, Columbus (O.) Gallery of Fine Arts, Detroit Institute of Arts, Museum of History, Science & Art (Los Angeles), Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City), Whitney Museum of America Art (New York City), Newark (New Jersey) Museum, Pennsylvania State College (Department of Architecture), Phillips Memorial Gallery, Corcoran Gallery of Art (Washington, District of Columbia), Addison Gallery of America Art (Andover, Massachusetts), Albright Art Gallery (Buffalo). Exhibited at Paris Salon, 1896, Paris Exposition, 1900. Gold medal, Buffalo Exposition, 1901.

Silver and bronze medals, Saint Louis Exposition, 1904.

Temple gold medal, 1924. Second prize, Carnegie Institute International Exhibition, 1929.

Carol H. Beck gold medal, 1933. Jennie Sesnan medal, 131st Annual Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1936.

Garden Club prize, International Exhibition of Paintings, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1936.

A.N.A., 1906. North.A., 1933. Member National Institute of Arts and Letters. Home: New York, New New York

Achievements

• William J. Glackens has been listed as a notable artist by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Bal Bullier

  • From Under Willows

  • Twenty-Three Fifth Avenue, Interior

  • Nude in green chair

  • The Swing

  • Café de la Paix

  • Christmas Shoppers

  • Café Lafayette (Portrait of Kay Laurel)

  • The Artist's Wife Knitting

  • The artist's wife and son

  • The Drive, Central Park

  • North Beach Swimming Pool

  • Under the Trees, Luxembourg Gardens

  • Merry Christmas

  • At the Beach

  • Beach side

  • Garden in Hartford

  • Bowlers, La Ciotat

  • Summer Hotel

  • A Stroll in the Park

  • East Point, Gloucester

  • Roses and Perimmons

  • Breakfast Porch

  • Under the Trees

  • New Castle, New Hampshire

  • Lenna, the Artist's Daughter, in a Chinese Costume

  • Poppies, Lilies and Blue Flowers

  • Nude on a Red Sofa

  • Skating in Central Park

  • Fête de Suquet

  • Young Woman in Green

  • Hammerstein's Roof Garden

  • Beach Scene, New London

  • Back of nude

  • Family Group

  • 29 Washington Square

  • Nude with Hat

  • Mahone Bay

  • Breezy Day Tugboats New York Harbor

  • Washington Square Park

  • May Day in Central Park

  • Connecticut landscape

  • Italo-American Celebration, Washington Square

  • Girl in a Black Cape

  • Portsmouth Harbor, New Hampshire

  • On the Quai

  • Fruit Stand Coney Island

  • Tugboat and Lighter

  • Dancer in a pink dress

  • Scene on the Lower East Side

  • Central Park in Winter

  • The Bandstand

  • Washington Square

  • Umbrellas

  • Far from the Fresh Farm Air

  • Bathing at Bellport

  • Standing girl with white spats

  • Portrait Of Charles Fitzgerald

  • Soda Fountain

  • Descending from the Bus

  • Dancer in blue

  • The Hammock

  • Chez Mouquin

  • Sledding in Central Park

  • Seated Actress with Mirror

  • Girl Roller-Skating, Washington Square

  • City Scene

  • Flowers in a Quimper Pitcher

  • La Villette

  • Nude with Apple

  • Figures in a Park, Paris

  • 1911 For the Championship of the Backlot League

  • The Shoppers

  • The Green Car

  • Lenna Painting (The Artist's Daughter)

  • Flowers Against a Palm Leaf Pettern

  • The Bathing Hour

  • Treading Clams, Wickford

  • Parade

  • Bathing at Bellport, Long Island

Membership

Member National Institute of Arts and Letters.

• The Eight , United States

• National Academy of Design , United States

  1906

Connections

Married Edith Dimock, February 16, 1904. Children: Ira Doctorate., Lenna Doctorate. Republican.

Father:

Samuel Glackens

Mother:

Elizabeth (Finn) Glackens

Spouse:

Edith Dimock

child:

Ira D. Glackens

child:

Lenna D. Representative Glackens

References

• The World of William Glackens: The C. Richard Hilker Art Lectures
  2011
• American Painting From the Armory Show to the Depression
  1955
• William Glackens
  1996
• William Glackens and the Ashcan group: The emergence of realism in American art
  1957
• Robert Henri and His Circle
  1969