The Promenade

1927

William James Glackens American, 1870-1938

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About the Artwork

Title The Promenade

Artwork Date 1927

Artist William James Glackens

Life Dates 1870-1938

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. American

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. ----------

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Unframed: 32 × 25 3/4 inches (81.3 × 65.4 cm) Framed: 38 3/8 × 32 7/16 × 2 1/8 inches (97.5 × 82.4 × 5.4 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department American Art before 1950

Credit City of Detroit Purchase

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 30.322

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Provenance

Kraushaar Galleries (New York, New York, USA);
1930-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Richardson, E. P. "The Promenade by William Glackens." Bulletin of the DIA 12, 1 (October 1930): p. 7.

Sixteenth Annual Exhibition of American Art. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1930, no. 17.

Pene du Bois, Guy Pene. William Glackens. New York, 1931, p. 30.

J. L. "New Exhibitions of the Week: Glackens and Schnakenberg." The Art News 35 (January 30, 1937): p. 17.

"Whitney holds Memorial for Glackens, Carefree and Independent." The Art Digest 13, 6 (December 1938) (ill.).

Roberts, Mary Fanton. "Glackens: Forty Years' Achievement as a Painter of the American Scene is Presented in a Memorial Show Filling the Entire Whitney Museum." Arts and Decoration 49, 4 (January 1939): pp. 8-11.

William J. Glackens Memorial Exhibition. Exh. cat., Carnegie Institute. Pittsburgh, 1939, no. 15 and no. 85.

"Artists of the Philadelphia Press." Philadelphia Museum Bulletin 41, 217 (November 1945): pp. 1-13.

Artists of the Philadelphia Press: William Glackens, George Luks, Everett Shinn, John Sloan. Exh. cat., Philadelphia Museum of Art. Philadelphia, 1945, pp. 1-13, no. 15.

Exhibition of William Glackens. Exh. cat., C.W. Kraushaar Art Galleries. New York, 1949, no. 33.

"Review of Glackens Exhibition at Kraushaar Galleries [exact title unknown]." New York Herald-Tribune (January 1949).

U.S. Information Agency European Traveling Exhibition. Exh. cat., Sala de la Direccion. Madrid, 1955, no. 76.

150th Anniversary Exhibition. Exh. cat., Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Philadelphia, 1955, no. 213.

Glackens, Ira. William Glackens and the Ash Can Group. New York, 1957, pp. 198-202.

The Art of William Glackens. Exh. cat., The University Art Gallery, Rutgers University. New Brunswick, NJ, 1967, no. 26.

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