The Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale is Showing "William Glackens and The Eight"

artwork: William Glackens - "Tugboat and Lighter", 1908 - Oil on canvas - 25" x 30".  - Collection of the Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale (MAFL).


Fort Lauderdale, FL – As the repository of the William Glackens estate, the Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale has among its holdings a large collection of paintings and works on paper by this intriguing turn-of-the-century American artist. Along with fellow painters Robert Henri, Everett Shinn, Ernest Lawson, Maurice Prendergast, Arthur B. Davies, John Sloan and George Luks, Glackens sought to change the face of American art in the first decade of the twentieth century. Those eight artists wanted to paint life the way it was being lived, and in their pursuit of that goal they brought a grittiness to American art that had, until then, been dominated by the society portraits of John Singer Sargent and the picturesque coastal scenes of Winslow Homer.

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