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Lady in A Wicker Chair

Lady in A Wicker Chair - Painting
Accession #: 3708.1
Title: Lady in A Wicker Chair
Object Type: Painting
Participants:
Physical Description: Painting of a woman seated in a wicker chair. Her face is painted in 3/4 profile, she is brunette, pink toned skin, red lips. She wears a brown hat and a white/blue dress with brown shawl. She is removing or putting on white gloves, the dexter (right) hand is gloved and the sinister hand is touching the cuff of the glove on the gloved hand. The wicker chair has a red cushion. Next to the chair, to the woman's left and in the foreground of the picture is a table on which is a white doily or table cloth on which is a tea cup and saucer. The cup and saucer appear to be porcelain with blue and red decoration and gold rim and handle. An ashtray with a cigarette resting on its edge sits on the table to the left of the tea cup and cloth. It sits directly on the table top. The background is texture of greenish hues. FRAME: Traditional guilt-style frame. Artificially distressed to look old. Linen liner around painting. Medallion with "GLACKENS" printed on it in center of linen liner.
Description: Early in his career, William Glackens joined the Ashcan School whose artists portrayed urban realities: prostitutes, drunks, boxing matches and crowded tenements. Later Glackens gave up painting the seamier side of society adopting impressionist techniques and more refined scenes such as upper class persons strolling in parks, sitting in cafes, and studio-posed still-lifes. At the beginning of the 20th century, the Ashcan School rebelled against American Impressionism (the leading edge of American art at the time) to capture the gritty reality of urban existence in contrast to Impressionism's light-filled images of middle-class life.
Category: Art
Subjects/Topics/Concepts:
Women (Women), Portrait (Artwork->Subject), Oil (Artwork->Painting)
Dimensions:
Paper Dimensions H x W 18 3/8 x 15 1/8"
Frame Dimensions H x W x D 29 1/2 x 25 1/2 x 2 1/2"
Materials/Techniques:
oil (Material)
canvas (Material)
Related Exhibits:
Credit Line: Gift of Dr. James and Mrs. Joanne Harkin, 1993
Copyright:
public domain
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