월리엄 글래큰스(William Glackens), 미국, 화가, 1870-1938
20세기 초 미국인들의 생활과 문화를 잘 표현한 화가, '윌리엄 글래큰스'는 뉴욕 도심의 공원 "센트럴파크의 겨울"을 여러 점 그렸습니다. 유모차에 아이를 태우고 나온 시민, 눈썰매를 끌고 나온 아이들, 꽁꽁 언 연못에서 스케이트 타는 사람들 등. 100여 년 전 미국인들이 대도시 한복판에서 겨울을 즐기는 모습입니다.
여의도 크기만 한 뉴욕의 허파, 센트럴파크는 영화는 물론 화가들에게도 좋은 소재를 제공해주고 있죠. 화가 '글래큰스'는 처음엔 어두운 색조의 생동감 있는 톤으로 뉴욕과 파리의 일상을 그리다가, '르누아르'의 영향을 받아 그림 스타일도 비슷해지고 색상도 밝아졌답니다.
About Him
The first comprehensive survey of William Glackens in almost half a century, this exhibition included nearly 90 major paintings and works on paper from some of America's finest private and public collections. Glackens’s influential career spanned five decades and this exhibition showed a new generation the breadth of his oeuvre, displaying key works from each decade of his career and revealing his enchanting zest for life, as well as his arsenal of sophisticated techniques. Several important canvases and works on paper were on public view for the first time.
The exhibition was highly selective, concentrating on the most pivotal, adventurous, accomplished, and distinctive works, including the magisterial At Mouquin’s (1905) and The Soda Fountain (1935). Several works in the Barnes collection were included in the exhibition. A joyous and pure painter, Glackens also served as an advocate for the development of avant-garde art in America through his participation in the landmark exhibitions of The Eight (1908), the Armory Show (1913), and the Society of Independent Artists (1917).
Albert C. Barnes and William Glackens attended Philadelphia’s prestigious Central High School together. When they renewed their friendship in 1911, Glackens encouraged Dr. Barnes’s appreciation of modern French painting. Glackens went to Paris in 1912 on a buying trip, sending back works by Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and others. The men remained close, and Dr. Barnes became his most important patron and acknowledged his friend’s importance to his collecting endeavors: “The most valuable single educational factor to me has been my frequent association with a life-long friend who combines greatness as an artist with a big man’s mind.”
Coordinating curator for the Barnes Foundation was Judith F. Dolkart, deputy director of art and archival collections and Gund Family Chief Curator.
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