William Glackens
(1870–1938) amerikansk målare
William Glackens (USA, 1870–1938) is listed in the catalogue as a painter and a draughtsman. By year of birth, William Glackens belongs to the chapter ‘The avant-garde’ in this site’s history of art.
William Glackens was born in Philadelphia and died in Westport. William Glackens trained at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. William Glackens studied under Thomas Pollock Anshutz. William Glackens worked in Fontainebleau, Paris, Kingdom of the Netherlands, and Spain. Wikidata associates William Glackens with Ashcan School and American realism. William Glackens became a member of American Academy of Arts and Letters and Society of Independent Artists.
The works belong mainly to the genres portrait, figure, and genre art. The catalogue has 66 works by William Glackens with free images. The dated works span the years 1895–1932. Works by William Glackens are held by several collections, among them Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, Nova Southeastern University, Brooklyn Museum, and Metropolitan Museum of Art. Wikidata links one work to a movement covered in the chapter ‘Impressionism’.
Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Claudio Castelucho, Ferdinand Schmutzer, Johann Georg van Caspel, Hugh Henry Breckenridge, and Jessie Tarbox Beals.