Property from a Private Collection, Pennsylvania
William James Glackens
1870 - 1938
Old Legros at My Side Would Comment Upon It as 'Mere Clap-Trap' (The Balcony)
signed W. Glackens (lower left)
ink, wash, and watercolor on card
11 by 13 ¾ in.
27.9 by 34.9 cm.
Executed circa 1899.
Condition Report
Provenance
Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Graham, New York
Mr. Arthur G. Altschul, New York (acquired as a gift from the above in 1958)
Sotheby’s, New York, 4 December 2002, lot 8 (consigned by the above)
Berry-Hill Galleries Inc., New York (acquired from the above)
Acquired from the above in 2004 by the present owner
Literature
William Le Queux, “The Hermit of Rue Madame,”Ainslee’s Magazine, April 1899, p. 268, illustrated
Marshall B. Davidson, The Drawing of America: Eyewitnesses to History, New York, 1983, p. 211, illustrated
Nancy E. Allyn and Elizabeth H. Hawkes, William Glackens: A Catalogue of His Book and Magazine Illustrations, Wilmington, North Carolina, 1987, no. 13, pp. 12 and 47, illustrated
Doreen Bolger and Nicolai Cikovsky Jr., American Art Around 1900, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1990, no. 6, p. 57, illustrated
Bruce Weber, American Paintings XI, New York, 2003, pp. 88-89, illustrated in color
Exhibited
City Art Museum of St. Louis; Washington D.C., National Collection of Fine Arts and New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, William Glackens in Retrospect, November 1966 - June 1967, no. 89, n.p.
Salt Lake City, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Graphic Styles of the American Eight, February - April 1976, no. 35, pp. 41 and 74, illustrated
The Minneapolis Institute of Fine Arts; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art and The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, American Master Drawings and Watercolors: Works on Paper from Colonial Times to the Present, September 1976 - April 1977, no. 240, pp. 279-80, and p. 430, illustrated