William Glackens and Renoir: Affinities and Distinctions

Catalogo della mostra tenuta a NSU Art museum Fort Lauerdale, Florida, e a Chattanooga, TN, nel 2018-2019. Volume in copertina rigida, 143 pagine con numerose illustrazioni a colori nel testo redatto in lingua inglese - English text. Copia in condizioni di nuovo, ancora sigillata - brand new in original shrink-wrap. Spedizione in 24 ore dalla conferma dell'ordine. "William J. Glackens's (1870-1938) keen interest in the work of Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) has long been recognized, but Glackens's specific debt to the art of this important French modernist has not been fully explored. In bringing together more than 30 works by each of these two important modernists for the first time, William Glackens and Pierre-Auguste Renoir: Affinities and Distinctions fills this void. It demonstrates Glackens's response to Renoir's Impressionist work (1860-mid-1880s), which was avidly purchased by a wide variety of American collectors, including Albert C. Barnes, who sent Glackens, his friend and colleague, to Paris in 1912 to purchase works for his then fledgling collection.Glackens was the only American artist who subsequently had nearly carte blanche access to Barnes' increasingly important collection of American and European modern art that included work by Paul Cezanne, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso, among others, and numerous examples of Renoir's late-style (1890-1919)..."