Object Details
Artist
William Glackens, born Philadelphia, PA 1870-died Westport, CT 1938
Gallery Label
William Glackens rejected the elegant Gilded age painting style shown in the country's art academies in favor of street scenes filled with regular people -- immigrants on the Lower East Side, "modern" young women strolling in the city's parks, and sun worshippers enjoying a day at the beach.
His paintings, and those of his friends in the so-called "Ashcan School," asserted the centrality of ordinary Americans in the early years of the twentieth century. Paintings by these artists provided a model for the thousands of scenes of American life created for the PWAP, the WPA, and other New Deal art programs.
Credit Line
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ira Glackens
Date
ca. 1915
Object number
1968.1
Restrictions & Rights
CC0
Type
Painting
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
26 x 32 in. (66.1 x 81.3 cm.)
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Department
Painting and Sculpture
On View
Smithsonian American Art Museum, 1st Floor, South Wing
Data Source
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Topic
Figure group
Landscape\beach
Dress\accessory\umbrella
Recreation\sport and play\swimming
Landscape\United States\Blue Point
Architecture Exterior\commercial\hotel
Link to Original Record
Record ID
saam_1968.1