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William Glackens | |||
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1870 in Philadelphia, PA Died 1938 in Westport, CT |
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| Girls on the Shore, 1922 | ||||
| oil
paint on canvas 18 x 30 inches Bebe and Crosby Kemper Collection Gift of the William T. Kemper Charitable Trust 2001.3 |
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| Glackens had a profound influence
on early 20th-century American art. He was a member of The Eight (the group
of urban realists notoriously dubbed the Ashcan School), the selection chairman
of American painting in the 1913 Armory Show, and the initial advisor of
the esteemed Barnes Foundation collection. As we see here, Glackens' style
evolved from the dark tones of Ashcan to the brilliant colors of American
Impressionism, after seeing French Impressionist paintings in Europe. |
