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| Pete Matthews Jr © 2023 |
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| 2023-05-11 r503 Boys Sliding (oil, ~1897), William Glackens;Delaware Museum of Art |
| Glackens started his career as a newspaper artist in Philadelphia where he befriended illustrators John Sloan, Everett Shinn, and George Luks. He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and traveled to Paris with Robert Henri, This painting dates from not long after his arrival in New York in 1897, and its focus on everyday life is typical of his approach, |