Posts in Category: American
Reginald Marsh
Reginald Marsh, March 14, 1898–July 3, 1954, was an American painter and printmaker born in Paris to American artist parents. He graduated from Yale University in 1920 and studied at the Art Students League of New York, where his teachers included John Sloan and Kenneth Hayes Miller.
Marsh worked as a newspaper and magazine illustrator before establishing his painting career. Associated with the Fourteenth Street School, he depicted New York streets, public transportation, burlesque theaters, and Coney Island in oils, tempera, watercolors, drawings, and prints. He also completed federal mural commissions and began teaching at the Art Students League in 1935.
Marsh continued painting and teaching into the 1950s and died in Dorset, Vermont. His work is held by the Whitney Museum of American Art, the National Gallery of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the Saint Louis Art Museum.
William James Glackens
William James Glackens, March 13, 1870–May 22, 1938, was an American painter and illustrator born in Philadelphia. He worked for Philadelphia newspapers and attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, studying under Thomas Anshutz. Through John Sloan he became associated with Robert Henri and other painters who later exhibited as The Eight.
Glackens traveled in Europe in 1895–1896 and settled in New York in 1896. He participated in The Eight’s exhibition in 1908 and helped organize the Armory Show of 1913. His subjects included city life, portraits, landscapes, beach scenes, and still lifes; his later painting reflected his interest in French Impressionism. In 1912 he purchased European paintings for his former schoolmate Albert C. Barnes.
Glackens continued painting and exhibiting during his final decades and was elected a full member of the National Academy of Design in 1933. He died in Westport, Connecticut, in 1938. His work is held by the Barnes Foundation, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Brooklyn Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale.
