The Shoppers
Artist
William James Glackens
(American, 1870-1938)
CultureAmerican
Date1907-08
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsOverall: 60 x 60 in. (152.4 x 152.4 cm)
Overall, Frame: 69 5/8 x 69 7/8 x 3 in. (176.8 x 177.5 x 7.6 cm)
Overall, Frame: 69 5/8 x 69 7/8 x 3 in. (176.8 x 177.5 x 7.6 cm)
InscribedSigned and dated lower right: W. Glackens 07
Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
Object number71.651
Collections
On View
Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 218
Label TextWilliam James Glackens American, 1870–1938 The Shoppers, 1907–08 Oil on canvas In dark brown furs, Edith Glackens leads her friends through a Manhattan department store. As painted by her husband William Glackens, these middle-class shoppers are connoisseurs and tastemakers, choosing distinctive hats, coats, jewelry, handbags, and lingerie. City life and consumer culture fascinated Impressionists and Glackens’ younger generation of New York realist painters. After he was excluded from the National Academy of Design’s annual exhibition, Glackens helped organize an independent group of like-minded colleagues called the Eight. Their shows invited the public, like these shoppers, to carefully examine a wide range of artistic styles and subjects. Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. 71.651 ProvenanceThe artist; the artist's widow; Kraushaar Galleries, 1957; Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., 1971. Exhibition History"Carnegie International Exhibition," Pittsburgh, Pa., 1907. (Glackens reworked the painting after this exhibition). "Exhibition of Paintings by Arthur B. Davies, William J. Glackens...," Macbeth Galleries, New York, N.Y., 1908. (Exh. cat. no. 52) "William Glackens Memorial Exhibition," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, N.Y., December 14, 1938 - January 15, 1939. (Exh. cat. no. 3) "William Glackens Memorial Exhibition," City Art Museum of St. Louis, Mo., October 1 - 13, 1939. (Exh. cat. no. 1) "Life in Philadelphia," Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pa., May 1 - September 22, 1940. (Exh. cat. no. 32) "William Glackens," Kraushaar Galleries, New York, N.Y., January 3 - 29, 1949. (Exh. cat. no. 9) "The World of Art in 1910," The Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, New Orleans, La., November 15 - December 31, 1960. (Exh. cat. not paged) "The Controversial Century, 1850-1950, Paintings from the Collection of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.," Provincetown, Mass., June 16 - September 3, 1962; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, September 28 - November 4, 1962. (Exh. cat. not paged) "William Glackens in Retrospect," City Art Museum of St. Louis, Mo., November 18 - December 31, 1966; Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., February 1 - April 2, 1967; Whitney Museum of American Art, N.Y., April 25 - June 11, 1967. (Exh. cat. no. 27) "Artist in the City," Swain School of Design, William W. Crapo Gallery, New Bedford, Mass., October 17 - November 22, 1968. (Exh. cat. no. 26) "Three Hundred Years of American Art in the Chrysler Museum," Chrysler Museum at Norfolk, Va., March 1 - July 4, 1976. (Exh. cat. p. 174) "Veronese to Franz Kline: Masterworks from the Chrysler Museum at Norfolk," for the benefit of The Chrysler Museum Art Reference Library, Wildenstein & Co., New York, N. Y., April 13 - May 13, 1978. (Exh. cat. no. 36) "The Eight," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, N.Y., January 13 - March 20, 1983. "William Glackens: Painter and Illustrator, 1897-1915," Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Del., March 15 - April 28, 1985. "Painters of a New Century: The Eight and American Art," Milwaukee Art Museum, Wis., September 6 - November 3, 1991; Denver Art Museum, Colo., December 7 - February 16, 1992; National Gallery of Canada, April 16 - June 7, 1992; and Brooklyn Museum, N.Y., June 26 - September 21, 1992. (Exh. cat. no. 57) "American Impressionism and Realism: The Painting of Modern Life, 1885-1915," The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, N.Y., May 10 - July 24, 1994; Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Tex., August 21 - October 30, 1994; The Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colo., December 3, 1994 - February 5, 1995; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, Calif., March 12 - May 14, 1995. (Exh. cat. no. 272) "The American Century: Art and Culture, 1900-2000 (Part I: 1900-1950)," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, N.Y., April 22 - September 5, 1999. "Tales from the Easel: American Narrative Paintings from Southeastern Museums, circa 1800-1950," The Columbus Museum, Columbus, Ga., February 8 - April 11, 2004; Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Fla., April 25 - July 11, 2004; Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Ky., September 14 - December 12, 2004; El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, Tex., January 16 - April 10, 2005. "Art in America: 300 Years of Innovation," (Organized by the Guggenheim Museum, New York) National Art Museum of China, Beijing, February 10 - April 5, 2007; Shanghai Museum, jointly with the Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China, April 30 - June 30, 2007, Museo Guggenheim, Bilbao, Spain, October 10, 2007 - April 27, 2008. "American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life 1765-1915," Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, October 5, 2009 - January 24, 2010; Los Angeles Country Museum of Art, February 28 - May 23, 2010. "William Glackens," The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, PA, November 8, 2014 - February 2, 2015.Published References_William Glackens Memorial Exhibition_, exh. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, N.Y., 1938, no. 3. Forbes Watson, _William Glackens Memorial Exhibition_, exh. cat., City Art Museum, St. Louis, Mo., 1939, no. 1. _William Glackens_, exh. cat., Kraushaar Galleries, New York, N.Y., 1949, no. 9. Ira Glackens, _William Glackens and the Ashcan Group_ (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1957), 85, 88, 144, 170. Charles F. Comfort and William S.A. Dale. _The Controversial Century: 1850-1950_, exh. cat., Chrysler Art Museum of Provincetown, Provincetown, Mass., 1962. Leslie Katz, edited by Charles E. Buckley, _William Glackens in Retrospect_, exh. cat., City Art Museum of Saint Louis, Mo., 1966, no. 27. _Artist in the City_, exh. cat., William W. Crapo Gallery, Swain School of Design, New Bedford, Mass., 1968, no. 34. "American Painting: Gilbert Stuart - George Bellows, Nov. 18 - Dec. 31," Chrysler Museum at Norfolk _Bulletin_ 1 (Dec. 1972): not paged, illustration inside cover. Mahonri Sharp Young, _The Eight: The Realist Revolt in American Painting_ (New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1973), 100-101, 106. Amy Goldin, "The Eight's Laissez Faire Revolution," _Art in America_ 61 (July-August 1973): 42-49. Dennis R. Anderson, _Three Hundred Years of American Art in the Chrysler Museum_, exh. cat., Norfolk, Va., 1975, 171. Barbara Rose, _American Art Since 1900_ (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1978), 19-20, ill. no. 1-5. Eric M. Zafran and Mario Amaya, _Veronese to Franz Kline: Masterworks from the Chrysler Museum at Norfolk_, exh. cat., Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Va., 1978, 35. _The Chrysler Museum: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Norfolk, Virginia_, (Norfolk: Chrysler Museum, 1982), 95. ISBN: 0-940744-37-6 Bennard B. Perlman, "The 75th Anniversary of The Eight," _Whitney Museum of American Art News_ 2 (January 1983): 3-8. Matthew Baigell, _A Concise History of American Painting and Sculpture_ (New York: Harper & Row, 1984), 208, no. 208. ISBN: 0064303500 Judith Zilczer, "The Eight on Tour, 1908-1909," _American Art Journal_ 16 (Summer 1984): 33-34, fig. 14. Joyce M. Szabo, "American Art - 1875-1913" _Gallery Guide_ (Norfolk: The Chrysler Museum, 1986), no. 9. Jefferson C. Harrison. _The Chrysler Museum Handbook of the European and American Collections: Selected Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings_. Norfolk: The Chrysler Museum, 1991, 168-169, no. 127. ISBN: 0-940744-59-7 Elizabeth Milroy, _Painters of a New Century: The Eight & American Art_, exh. cat., Milwaukee Art Museum, Wis., 1991, 167-169. ISBN: 0944110088 Ellen Wiley Todd, _The "New Woman" Revised: Painting and Gender Politics on Fourteenth Street_ (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), 165-166. ISBN: 0520074718 H. Barbara Weinberg, et al., _American Impressionism and Realism: The Painting of Modern Life, 1885-1915_, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, N.Y., 1994, 267, 272-276, 366, plate 272. ISBN: 0870997009 William H. Gerdts, with an essay by Jorge H. Santis, _William Glackens_ (New York: Abbeville Press, 1996), 80. ISBN: 1558598685 Barbara Haskell, _The American Century: Art & Culture, 1900-1950_ (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1999), 80, 247, no. 148. ISBN: 0393047237 Foreword by Gerald Peters, essay by Valerie Ann Leeds, _William Glackens: American Impressionist_, exh. cat., Gerald Peters Gallery, New York, N.Y., 2003, 12. ISBN: 0935037721 William Underwood Eiland, "American Narrative Paintings, circa 1800 - 1950," _American Art Review_ XVI, No. 1 (January/February 2004): 138-151. ISSN: 0092-1327 Charles C. Eldredge, _Tales from the Easel: American Narrative Paintings from Southeastern Museums, circa 1800-1950_, exh. cat., Southeastern Art Museum Directors Consortium, Columbus Museum, Ga., 2004, 116-117, no. 24. ISBN: 0820325694 David Park Curry, _James McNeill Whistler: Uneasy Pieces_ (New York: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in association with The Quantuck Lane Press, 2004), fig. 3.44, 101, 103. Martha N. Hagood and Jefferson C. Harrison, _American Art at the Chrysler Museum: Selected Paintings, Sculpture, and Drawings_ (Norfolk, Va.: Chrysler Museum of Art, 2005), 144-145, no. 89. Edited by Susan Davidson, _Art in America: 300 Years of Innovation_ exh.cat., National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China, 2007, 188 & 214. ISBN: 978-1858943947 Jeff Harrison, _Collecting with Vision: Treasures From the Chrysler Museum of Art_ (London: D. Giles Ltd., 2007), 69, fig. 75. Joyce K. Schiller, et al., _John Sloan's New York_ (Wilmington: Delaware Art Museum, 2007), 142. ISBN: 978-0-977-16441-7 (Published in conjunction with an exhibition by a different title "Seeing the City: Sloan's New York", presented by the Delaware Art Museum). Carrie Rebora Barratt and H. Barbara Weinberg, eds., _American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765-1915_, exh. cat., (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2009), 170. Avis Berman, ed., _William Glackens_ (New York: Skira Rizzoli Publications in association with the Barnes Foundation, 2014) 185, 275. Deborah Lyons, ed., _The World of William Glackens_, Volume II, (New York: Sansom Foundation, Inc., 2017), pg. 198, fig. 138.
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