Artist: William Glackens (1870 - 1938)
Nationality: American
Movement: Ashcan School
Media: Painting
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Biography:
Born in Philadelphia, William Glackens began his career as a newspaper illustrator. After meeting Robert Henri in 1891, he was inspired to pursue a painting career. Five years later, he moved to NewYork and joined The Eight in 1908. Glackens was a principle member of the Ashcan School although his work bordered on Impressionism rather than Social Realism. After 1912, Glackens worked as the art consultant for Dr. Arthur C. Barnes and traveled across Europe in order to build his employer’s collection. Glackens became the first president of the Society of Independent Artists in 1917.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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William Glackens, May Day, Central Park, circa 1905
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William Glackens, Rocks and Lighthouse, circa 1908
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William Glackens, Scribner"s August fiction Number, 19th - 20th century
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Artist: William J. Glackens Title: In the Park Date: 1906 Medium: black chalk Dimensions: H.5-1/16
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William Glackens - The Shoppers 1907 oil on canvas Chrysler Museum of Art American
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William Glackens - At Mouquin's 1905 oil on canvas The Art Institute of Chicago American
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William James Glackens - The Promenade 1927 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art American
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William Glackens - Family Group 1910-1911 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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William James Glackens - Luxembourg Gardens 1906 oil on canvas Corcoran Gallery of Art American
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William Glackens - Beach at Blue Point c. 1915 oil on canvas Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester American
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William Glackens - The Drive, Central Park c. 1905 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art American
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William Faithorne , The Art of Graveing and Etching by William Faithorne (London: William Faithorne, 1662), 1662
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Samuel William Reynolds, Senior, William, Youngest Son of Lord William Russell, 18th - 19th century
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Adriaen Pynacker, William of Orange (William III) Commemorative Plate, 1690
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William Page - Mrs. William Page 1860-61 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art American
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William Henry Watt, William Lourdsworth, 19th century
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Arthur William Devis - The Hon. William Monson and His Wife, Ann Debonnaire c. 1786 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art English
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William Faithorne , Hot to Guide Your Needles..., plate 4 opposite page 12 in the book The Art of Graveing and Etching by William Faithorne (London: William Faithorne, 1662), 1662
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William Faithorne , How to Dry or Harden the Varnish..., plate 2 opposite page 9 in the book The Art of Graveing and Etching by William Faithorne (London: William Faithorne, 1662), 1662
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William Faithorne , How to Use the Oval Points..., plate 5 opposite page 15 in the book The Art of Graveing and Etching by William Faithorne (London: William Faithorne, 1662), 1662
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William Faithorne , Hot to Choose Your Needles..., plate 3 opposite page 10 in te book The Art of Graveing and Etching by William Faithorne (London: William Faithorne, 1662), 1662
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William Hancock Wilke, William Andrew Clark, Jr., 19th - 20th century
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William Dickinson, Portrait of the Reverend William Preston, 18th - 19th century
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William Nicholson, London Types (London: William Heinemann, 1898), 1898
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William Matthew Prior, Isaac Josiah and William Mulford Hand, circa 1845
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William Page - Colonel William Leete Stone 1839 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art American
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William Faithorne , At the upper end of the plate you have the woman"s arm..., plate 8 opposite page 22 in the book The Art of Graveing and Etching by William Faithorne (London: William Faithorne, 1662), 1662
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William Faithorne , How to apply your hard Varnish..., plate 1 opposite page 7 in the book The Art of Graveing and Etching by William Faithorne (London: William Faithorne, 1662), 1662
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William Faithorne , The forms of graving-tools, plate 9 opposite page 43 in the book The Art of Graveing and Etching by William Faithorne(London: William Faithorne, 1662), 1662
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William Fares, Untitled, 1974
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William T. Wiley, A Suite of Daze by William T. Wiley (Chicago: Landfall Press Inc., 1977)., 1977
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William Bagdatopoulos - Dr. William Henry Holmes 1929 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum American
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William Faithorne , How to apply ye Aqua Fortis upon ye Plate, plate 6 opposite page 18 in the book, The Art of Graveing and Etching by William Faithorne (London: William Faithorne, 1662), 1662
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William Merritt Chase - Portrait of President William Waugh Smith 1907 oil on canvas The Maier Museum of Art American
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William Nicholson, An Almanac of Twelve Sports (London: William Heinemann, 1898), 1898
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William Gilpin, An Essay upon Prints by William Gilpin (London: J. Robson, 1768), 1768
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William Henry Bartlett, The Danube by William Beattie (London & New York: Virtue & Co., [ca. 1840]), 1840
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William Faithorne , The manner of Casting the Aqua Fortis Upon the Plate, plate 7 opposite page 19 in the book The Art of Graveing and Etching by William Faithorne (London: William Faithorne, 1662), 1662
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William Merritt Chase - Mrs. William Merritt Chase c. 1890 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art American
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William T. Wiley, "C.D.O.D." (plate no. 12) in the book A Suite of Daze by William T. Wiley (Chicago: Landfall Press Inc., 1977)., 1977

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (5)
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Metropolitan Museum of Art: City Life: Around the Eight
This installation features a selection of about 25 drawings and small paintings from the Museum's collection by William Glackens, Ernest Lawson, George Luks, Everett Shinn, and John Sloan (all members of the Eight) and their contemporary Geo...
Columbia Museum of Art: Edward Hopper and Urban Realism
Drawn entirely from the Whitney Museum of American Art’s preeminent collection, this exhibition presents the work of Hopper alongside paintings by his peers – those artists who documented and explored the many faces of life in the changing urban e...
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts: Pride in Place: Landscapes by the Eight in Southern Collections
Early in the twentieth century, Macbeth Gallery in New York City was one of the few commercial venues for the exhibition of contemporary American art. Most opportunities for public access to artists' works were obtained through the exhibitio...
Dayton Art Institute: Scenes of American Life: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Rockwell Kents Snow Fields (1909), the earliest work in the exhibition, portrays women, children and dogs playing on a sunny winter day and captures the new spirit of the time. Likewise, paintings by William Glackens, Agnes Tait and Paul Cad...
Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University: The Changing Garden: Four Centuries of European and American Art
The Changing Garden presents nearly 200 works—prints, drawings, paintings, and photographs—by more than 100 artists. The exhibition includes great names from art history, such as Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Jean-Honoré Fr...

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