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The Drive, Central Park
c. 1905
William Glackens
William Glackens (American, 1870–1938)
American Painting and Sculpture
The Drive, Central Park, c. 1905. William Glackens (American, 1870–1938). Oil on canvas; framed: 84.1 x 99.4 x 9.5 cm (33 1/8 x 39 1/8 x 3 3/4 in.); unframed: 64.5 x 81 cm (25 3/8 x 31 7/8 in.); former: 84 x 99 x 11.5 cm (33 1/16 x 39 x 4 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1939.524 Glackens’s lifelong nickname “Butts” was acquired when he wore a coat with prominent brass buttons.
- Maker/Artist
- Glackens, William James
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Framed: 84.1 x 99.4 x 9.5 cm (33 1/8 x 39 1/8 x 3 3/4 in.); Unframed: 64.5 x 81 cm (25 3/8 x 31 7/8 in.); Former: 84 x 99 x 11.5 cm (33 1/16 x 39 x 4 1/2 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: signed lower right: W. Glackens
- Departments
- American Painting and Sculpture
- Accession Number
- 1939.524
- Credit Line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Exhibitions
- The Eight, 35th Anniversary Exhibition, Modern American Painting 1915, What Was the Armory Show?, Retrospective of Work by Richard Glackens, The Art of William Glackens, The American Scene 1900 - 1970, American Paintings 1825 - 1915 from the Cleveland Museum of Art, Visions of America: Urban Realism 1900-1945, Made in U.S.A., l'art américain, 1908-1943, entre nationalisme et internationalisme [FRAME], William Glackens; Sensuous Modernism, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, La Pintura Contemporánea Norteamericana (1941); traveled to Buenos Aires, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, (3 July-31 July 19410; to Montevideo, Galeria del Teatro Solis, (18 August-19 September 1941); to Rio de Janeiro, Museo de Bellas Artes (8 November-9 December 1941), illus. p. 51.<br><br>Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Artists of the Philadelphia Press (14 October-18 November 1945), cat. no. 4, see The Philadelphia Museum Bulletin (November, 1945), vol. XLI, no. 207 for catalogue.<br><br>New York, Kraushaar Galleries, Paintings and Drawings by William Glackens (3-29 January 1949), cat. no. 3. <br><br>Dayton, Dayton Art Institute, American and Impressionism (19 October-11 November 1951); traveled to Columbus, Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts (18 November-16 December 1951).<br><br>Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, The One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary Exhibition (15 January-13 March 1955), cat. no. 208, pp. 124-129, illus. p. 125.<br><br>Sent from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts on a good-will tour through the U.S. Information Agency, Washington, D.C. to: Madrid, Sala de la Direccion General de Belles Artes, (21 April-8 May 1955), illus. cat. no. 73, p. 43.<br><br>Florence, Palazzo Strozzi, l'Esposizione per il 150 Anniversario della Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts di Filadelfia (June 1955), illus. cat. no 73, p. 43; Innsbruck, Ferdinandeum Museum (16 July-20 August 1955), illus. cat. no. 73.<br><br>Ghent, Belgium, The Ghent Museum (3 September-2 October 1955), illus. cat. no. 81.<br>Stockholm, Royal Academy of the Free Arts, (4-27 November 1955), illus. cat. no. 83, p. 24.<br>San Diego, The Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, Modern American Painting: 1915 (6 December 1962-6 January 1963), cat. no. 11.<br><br>St. Louis, City Art Museum of Saint Louis, William Glackens in Retrospect (18 November-31 December 1966); traveled to Washington, D.C., National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution (1 February-2 April 1967); to New York, Whitney Museum of American Art (25 April-11 June 1967), illus. cat. no. 16.<br><br>Bloomington, IN, Indiana University Art Museum, The American Scene 1900-1970: An Exhibition of Twentieth Century Painting Held in Honor of the Sesquicentennial of Indiana University (6 April-17 May 1970), illus. cat. no. 47.<br><br>Coshocton, OH, The Johnson-Humrickhouse Memorial Museum, American Paintings 1825-1915 from The Cleveland Museum of Art (7 July-1 November 1979), illus. p. 11, fig. 14, listed p. 13.<br><br>Tokyo, The National Museum of Modern Art, Japanese Artists Who Studied in U.S.A. and the American Scene (24 July-5 September 1982); traveled to Kyoto, The National Museum of Modern Art, (14 September-11 October 1982), cat. no. 65, pp. 93-94, illus. p. 94.<br><br>Wilmington, DE, Delaware Art Museum, William Glackens: Illustrator in New York, 1897-1919 (15 March-28 April 1985); traveled to State College, PA, Pennsylvania State University Museum of Art (30 June-8 September 1985); to Yonkers, NY, Hudson River Museum (15 September-24 November 1985), cat. no. 3, illus.<br><br>Kalamazoo, MI, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, A Century of Caring: One Hundred Years of American Realism (18 May-3 August 1986), illus. p. 16, listed p. 49.
- Rights Statement
- Copyrighted
- Museum Location
- 208 American Gilded Age and Realism
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