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The Queens Museum of Art presents William Glackens: A Journey From Realism
To Impressionism,
on view now through April 30, 2000.
http://www.e-flux.com/special.php3?link=www.queensmuse.org/exhibitions&name=
The+Queens+Museum+of+Art
Born and raised in Philadelphia and the son of a railroad worker, William
Glackens became
a magazine illustrator at the age of twenty-one. A year later, he enrolled
in night classes
at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and also spent three years
sketching and painting
in Paris. Glackens and three other Philadelphia artist/journalists––John
Sloan, George Luks,
Everett Shinn––were attracted to New York City by their mentor, Robert
Henri, who instilled
in them an empathy for the city's immigrants, suffragettes, and others.
Arthur B. Davies,
Ernest Lawson, and Maurice Prendergast soon joined the group and became
known as "The Eight".
Their 1908 exhibition at the Macbeth Gallery in New York created a
sensation. They had dared
to depict the back alleys of New York, warts and all, and were henceforth
called the Ash Can School.
William Glackens: A Journey From Realism To Impressionism is curated by
Jorge Santis of the Museum
of Art, Fort Lauderdale, and the Queens Museum of Art curator William
Valerio.
Much of the work is on loan from the Glackens family bequest to the Museum
of Art, Fort Lauderdale
and includes notebooks and sketches not previously exhibited.
