WILLIAM JAMES GLACKENS (1870-1938)
16.04.2026 00:00UTC +01:00
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ID 1561320
Lot 70 | WILLIAM JAMES GLACKENS (1870-1938)
Estimate value
300000USD $ 300 000 – 500 000
Descending from the Bus
signed 'W Glackens' (lower left)
oil on canvas
25 x 30 in. (63.5 x 76.2 cm.)
Painted circa 1910.
Literature
B. Wolf, "Remembering Glackens," Art Digest, vol. XX, no. 4, November 15, 1945, p. 34.
W.H. Gerdts, J.H. Santis, William Glackens, New York, 1996, pp. 101-03, pl. 76, illustrated.
S. Ruby, Have We an American Art?, Weimar, Germany, 1999, p. 274.
R.J. Wattenmaker, American Paintings and Works on Paper in the Barnes Foundation, New Haven, Connecticut, 2010, p. 83.
Exhibited
New York, Seventh Annual Glackens Memorial Exhibition, December 1945.
New York, Grand Central Art Galleries, Inc., 60 Americans Since 1800, November 19-December 5, 1946, n.p., no. 26.
New York, Grand Central Art Galleries, Inc., 30 Americans Since 1860, September 24-October 30, 1949, n.p., no. 5.
New York, Museum of Modern Art, The Eight, 1964.
St. Louis, Missouri, City Art Museum of St. Louis; Washington, D.C., National Collection of Fine Arts, William Glackens in Retrospect, November 18, 1966-June 11, 1967, n.p., no. 39, illustrated.
| Artist: | William Glackens (1870 - 1938) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Genre: | Cityscape |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Artist: | William Glackens (1870 - 1938) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Genre: | Cityscape |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
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