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Polish artistry drew on the resources of Europe. During the early 16th century reign of Sigismund I, Italian Renaissance artists were at work in Poland. Even two centuries later, the most famous master in the country bore the name of Bernardo Bellotto, a nephew of Canaletto. A court painter from 1767 to 1780, he used a camera obscura to obtain perfect perspectives for his city scapes. After the destruction of Warsaw during World War II, his paintings were so accurate that they were used to reconstruct demolished monuments and buildings. The horn of the Wieliczka salt miners, made...
Such a retrospective has now been given William Glackens at St. Louis' City Art Museum,* the painter's first since a memorial show assembled shortly after his death in 1938. At that time Glackens seemed out of fashion, with his tranquil ladies, summer-resort scenes and cityscapes thronged with meandering crowds. Today, his obvious borrowing from Renoir's palette seems less important than the pleasures of his sinuous brush stroke, sauciness of color, and the pure joyousness of his subjects. Although Glackens borrowed the impressionists' glasses, he saw the American scene with eyes that were first...
...foremost in illustrating the everyday life around him. Born in Philadelphia in 1870, he studied art at the Pennsylvania Academy, became a newspaper artist, along with George Luks, John Sloan and Everett Shinn, for the Philadelphia Press and later the New York World. Afterhours, the group congregated around Painter Robert Henri, trying to match the dark brown tints of old masters like Frans Hals and recent ones like Manet...
...Girl on Main Street. Glackens was the gentlest of these American impressionists. "Psychologically," Barnes said later, "Glackens is more akin to Renoir than any painter of our age." The painter's world was not the cafes of Paris but the more innocent one of the soda fountains of the U.S. He avoided the hurdy-gurdy of boxing matches, bathing beaches and laundry slung from slum fire stairs. Yet it is Glackens' reportorial honesty that lends to his lush vision of realism of America on the eve of world involvement...
...records his own friends, fellow artists, wives, mistresses, children, or dealers and collaborators. Even when his subjects become most mythic-whether huge, sculpted Cycladic heads or etchings confronting fragile female beauties with bullheaded male monsters-the impetus can be traced to concerns in Picasso's personal life. No painter alive has recorded the exact day he falls in love, or turns against a woman, with more precision...