William Glackens (1870-1938)

William Glackens ~ Ashcan School painter (Part. 1) || William Glackens ~ Ashcan School painter (Part. 2)

William Glackens was painter, illustrator and member of The Eight.

At the beginning of his career, Glackens painted scenes of middle-class life and used a rich, dark palette; in later years, he favored still lifes and studio scenes, his colors reflecting the influence of Pierre Auguste Renoir🎨.

William Glackens | Ashcan School painter

William Glackens ~ Ashcan School painter (Part. 2)🎨 || William Glackens ~ Ashcan School painter (Part. 3)🎨

William James Glackens (1870-1938) was an Illustrator and an American🎨 Impressionist painter, one of the founders of the Ashcan School of American art, who is considered to be one of the most influential artists in the history of American Art.

Glackens reacted against the academic restrictions of his period, combining a vivid impressionism with a firm sense of structure in his work.

William Glackens was born in Philadelphia on March 13, 1870. After he completed high school (where John Sloan and Albert C. Barnes were his classmates), he became an artist-reporter for Philadelphia newspapers. He attended night classes at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, studying with Thomas Anshutz. Glackens shared a studio with Robert Henri; in 1895 they worked their way to Europe on a cattle boat.

Leon Roulette, 1959

Leon Roulette was born in Southern California.

Early in his youth, he found himself especially interested nature and read all he could about naturalist like John Muir who captured young Leon’s imagination.

He received private art instruction at an early age, and eventually graduated California State University of Long Beach with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Fine Arts.

Vermeer | A Young Woman standing at a Virginal, 1670-1672

The richly dressed lady playing a virginal stands in a prosperous Dutch home with paintings on the wall, a marble-tiled floor, and a skirting of locally produced Delft blue and white tiles. The two paintings on the wall behind her cannot be identified with certainty.

The small landscape on the left and the painting decorating the lid of the virginal resemble works by Vermeer🎨’s Delft colleague Pieter Groenewegen.

The second painting, attributed to Cesar van Everdingen, shows the motif of Cupid holding a card. This figure derives from a contemporary emblem. It may either refer to the idea of faithfulness to one lover or, in conjunction with the virginal, to the traditional association of music and love.

Ernest Ange Duez | Genre painter

Ernest Ange Duez - also known as Ernest-Ange Duez and Ernest Duez, (8 March 1843 - 5 April 1896) was a French painter of genre scenes, portraits, landscapes and religious subjects.

Although he was an admirer of Édouard Manet and owned paintings by Manet, Claude Monet, Edgar Degas and Berthe Morisot, his palette was more subdued than that of most of the Impressionists, and his technique more controlled.

His style, between that of the conservative Paris Salon and Impressionism, has been called juste milieu, and he has been compared to Alfred Stevens, Giuseppe De Nittis and James Tissot.

Edward Cucuel | Impressionist painter

Born in San Francisco, Edward Alfred Cucuel (1875-1954) was an Impressionist painter of genre and figures in landscapes, often using his family members for models rather than professionals.

A specialty was using a vibrant palette and rich impasto to depict women in sun-dappled landscape settings.

At the age of fourteen, he enrolled at the School of Design in San Francisco, and three years later, in 1892, he went to Paris and studied at the Academie Julian.

In 1893, he enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts as a student of Jean-Leon Gerome.

Canaletto | St Mark's Square, Venice - The drawing room of Europe

St Mark's Square, is the principal public square of Venice, Italy, where it is generally known just as la Piazza ("the Square").

All other urban spaces in the city (except the Piazzetta and the Piazzale Roma) are called campi ("fields").

The Piazzetta ("little Piazza/Square") is an extension of the Piazza towards San Marco basin in its south east corner.

Edgar Degas (1834-1917) | Drawing

Edgar Degas🎨, born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas (19 July 1834 – 27 September 1917) was a French artist🎨 famous for his paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings. He is especially identified with the subject of dance; more than half of his works depict dancers.

He is regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism🎨, although he rejected the term, preferring to be called a realist.