William James Glackens

William James Glackens was an American realist painter and one of the founders of the Ashcan School, which rejected the formal boundaries of artistic beauty laid down by the conservative National Academy of Design. He is also known for his work in helping Albert C. Barnes to acquire the European paintings that form the nucleus of the famed Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia. His dark-hued, vibrantly painted street scenes and depictions of daily life in pre-WW I New York and Paris first established his reputation as a major artist. His later work was brighter in tone and showed the strong influence of Renoir. During much of his career as a painter, Glackens also worked as an illustrator for newspapers and magazines in Philadelphia and New York City.

Excerpt from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

American realismAshcan School

Also known as Glackens, William Glackens, William J. Glackens

Works in museum collections

Open-access images (public domain, CC0 or CC BY) from museum collections, each shown with its credit line and licence.

Artist record compiled from: Wikidata (CC0), Getty ULAN (ODC-By), National Gallery of Art open data (CC0), Art Institute of Chicago API (CC0), Smithsonian Open Access (CC0), The Met Open Access (CC0). See data sources & attribution.

Related artists — American, born 1845–1895

• Norman Rockwell American · 1894–1978 · 200 results
• Edward Hopper American · 1882–1967 · 36 results
• George Bellows American · 1882–1925 · 165 results
• Charles Herbert Woodbury American · 1864–1940 · 66 results
• Cecilia Beaux American · 1855–1942 · 2 results
• Lyonel Feininger American · 1871–1956 · 900 results
• Ottone Rosai American · 1895–1957 · 849 results
• Otto Dix American · 1891–1969 · 690 results
• Man Ray American · 1890–1976 · 648 results
• Frank Lloyd Wright American · 1869–1959 · 550 results
• Thomas Hart Benton American · 1889–1975 · 532 results
• Charles Marion Russell American · 1864–1926 · 440 results

More American artists of the same period

• Kahlil Gibran 1883–1931 · 2 results
• Georgia O'Keeffe 1887–1986 · 14 results
• Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890–1969 · 3 results
• Henry Ossawa Tanner 1859–1937 · 3 results
• Edwin Austin Abbey 1852–1911 · 7 results
• E. E. Cummings 1894–1962 · 2 results
• Winsor McCay 1869–1934 · 2 results
• Howard Pyle 1853–1911 · 8 results
• Gutzon Borglum 1867–1941 · 4 results
• Daniel Chester French 1850–1931 · 3 results