William Glackens / The Drive, Central Park / c. 1905

William Glackens
The Drive, Central Park
c. 1905
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Creator Name: Glackens, William James
Creator Nationality: North American; American
Creator Role: Artist
Creator Dates/Places: 1870 - 1938
Gender: M
Creator Name-CRT: William Glackens
Title: The Drive, Central Park
Title Type: Primary
View: Full View
Creation Start Date: 1900
Creation End Date: 1910
Creation Date: c. 1905
Object Type: Paintings
Materials and Techniques: oil on canvas
Dimensions: Unframed: 64.5cm x 81cm
Inscriptions: signed lower right: W. Glackens
AMICA Contributor: The Cleveland Museum of Art
Owner Location: Cleveland, Ohio, USA
ID Number: 1939.524
Credit Line: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
Rights: http://www.clemusart.com/museum/disclaim2.html
Provenance: (Kraushaar).
Context: Unlike most other Ash Can painters, William Glackens adopted the outlook of the French Impressionists. This painting combines brisk brushwork with intense color to suggest the pleasure of a Sunday promenade in New York City's Central Park. The attention to certain details, like the top hats and parasols, further describes the lifestyle enjoyed by New York's upper classes. Trained as a newspaper illustrator in Philadelphia before moving to New York, Glackens also traveled to Europe, where he was influenced by the vigorous brushwork and realistic subject matter of 17th-century painters, including Rembrandt van Rijn, Franz Hals, and Diego Velazquez.
AMICA ID: CMA_.1939.524
AMICA Library Year: 1999
Media Metadata Rights: Copyright, The Cleveland Museum of Art

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