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"accession_number": "1939.524",
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"tombstone": "The Drive, Central Park, c. 1905. William Glackens (American, 1870\u20131938). 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",
"current_location": "208 American Gilded Age and Realism",
"title": "The Drive, Central Park",
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"department": "American Painting and Sculpture",
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"measurements": "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.)",
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"id": 312153,
"title": "The Eight",
"description": "The Eight. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (February 9-March 4, 1944).",
"opening_date": "1944-02-09T05:00:00"
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{
"id": 311898,
"title": "35th Anniversary Exhibition",
"description": "35th Anniversary Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 20-September 30, 1951).",
"opening_date": "1951-06-20T04:00:00"
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"id": 520061,
"title": "Modern American Painting 1915",
"description": "Modern American Painting 1915. San Diego Museum of Art (organizer) (December 7, 1962-January 6, 1963).",
"opening_date": "1962-12-07T05:00:00"
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"id": 304210,
"title": "What Was the Armory Show?",
"description": "What Was the Armory Show?. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (June 27-September 15, 1963).",
"opening_date": "1963-06-27T04:00:00"
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{
"id": 515965,
"title": "Retrospective of Work by Richard Glackens",
"description": "Retrospective of Work by Richard Glackens. Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO (organizer) (November 18-December 31, 1966); Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC (February 1-April 2, 1967); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (April 25-June 11, 1967).",
"opening_date": "1966-11-16T05:00:00"
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{
"id": 516390,
"title": "The Art of William Glackens",
"description": "The Art of William Glackens. Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ (organizer) (January 10-February 10, 1967).",
"opening_date": "1967-01-10T05:00:00"
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{
"id": 445649,
"title": "The American Scene 1900 - 1970",
"description": "The American Scene 1900 - 1970. Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, IN (organizer) (April 5-May 17, 1970).",
"opening_date": "1970-04-05T05:00:00"
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{
"id": 442840,
"title": "American Paintings 1825 - 1915 from the Cleveland Museum of Art",
"description": "American Paintings 1825 - 1915 from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum, Coshocton, OH (organizer) (July 7-November 1, 1979).",
"opening_date": "1979-07-07T04:00:00"
},
{
"id": 223204,
"title": "Visions of America: Urban Realism 1900-1945",
"description": "Visions of America: Urban Realism 1900-1945. Columbus Museum of Art (January 5-March 3, 1996); Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City (April 5-June 2, 1996); The Butler Institute of American Art (organizer) (June 30-August 18, 1996).",
"opening_date": "1996-01-05T00:00:00"
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{
"id": 227084,
"title": "Made in U.S.A., l'art am\u00e9ricain, 1908-1943, entre nationalisme et internationalisme [FRAME]",
"description": "Made in U.S.A., l'art am\u00e9ricain, 1908-1943, entre nationalisme et internationalisme [FRAME]. Mus\u00e9e des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, F-33000 Bordeaux, France (organizer) (October 5-December 31, 2001); Mus\u00e9e des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, Rennes, France (January 17-March 31, 2002); Mus\u00e9e Fabre, Montpellier, France (April 10-June 25, 2002).",
"opening_date": "2001-10-05T00:00:00"
},
{
"id": 232210,
"title": "William Glackens; Sensuous Modernism",
"description": "William Glackens; Sensuous Modernism. Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale, FL (organizer) (February 23-June 1, 2014); Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY (July 19-October 12, 2014); The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, PA (November 8, 2014-February 16, 2015).",
"opening_date": "2014-02-23T00:00:00"
}
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"legacy": [
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"description": "New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, La Pintura Contempor\u00e1nea 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.",
"opening_date": "1941-07-03T00:00:00"
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{
"description": "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.",
"opening_date": "1945-10-14T00:00:00"
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{
"description": "New York, Kraushaar Galleries, Paintings and Drawings by William Glackens (3-29 January 1949), cat. no. 3.",
"opening_date": "1949-01-03T00:00:00"
},
{
"description": "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).",
"opening_date": "1951-10-19T00:00:00"
},
{
"description": "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.",
"opening_date": "1955-01-15T00:00:00"
},
{
"description": "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.",
"opening_date": "1955-04-21T00:00:00"
},
{
"description": "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.",
"opening_date": "1955-07-16T00:00:00"
},
{
"description": "Ghent, Belgium, The Ghent Museum (3 September-2 October 1955), illus. cat. no. 81.",
"opening_date": "1955-09-03T00:00:00"
},
{
"description": "Stockholm, Royal Academy of the Free Arts, (4-27 November 1955), illus. cat. no. 83, p. 24.",
"opening_date": "1955-11-04T00:00:00"
},
{
"description": "San Diego, The Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, Modern American Painting: 1915 (6 December 1962-6 January 1963), cat. no. 11.",
"opening_date": "1962-12-06T00:00:00"
},
{
"description": "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.",
"opening_date": "1966-11-18T00:00:00"
},
{
"description": "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.",
"opening_date": "1970-04-06T00:00:00"
},
{
"description": "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.",
"opening_date": "1979-07-07T00:00:00"
},
{
"description": "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.",
"opening_date": "1982-07-24T00:00:00"
},
{
"description": "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.",
"opening_date": "1985-03-15T00:00:00"
},
{
"description": "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.",
"opening_date": "1986-05-18T00:00:00"
}
]
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"description": "Mrs. William J. Glackens, widow of the artist; (C. W. Kraushaar Art Gallery)",
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"id": 127065,
"description": "The Drive, Central Park, c. 1905. William Glackens (American, 1870\u20131938). Gouache over pencil; sheet: 18.5 x 25.9 cm (7 5/16 x 10 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. William J. Glackens 1949.4",
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"did_you_know": "Glackens\u2019s lifelong nickname \u201cButts\u201d was acquired when he wore a coat with prominent brass buttons.",
"description": "Glackens derived much inspiration from New York\u2019s Central Park, painting it several times during his early career. In this canvas he recorded the weekday ritual of wealthy Manhattanites parading through the park in their elegant horse-drawn carriages. This tradition drew spectators eager to witness the pageantry, and for all involved, it was an opportunity to see and be seen.",
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"citation": "Francis, Henry S. \u201cAn Oil by William Glackens.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 27, no. 3 (March 1940): 35\u201336.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 35-36",
"url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25138083"
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"citation": "Prasse, Leona. \"A Drawing by William Glackens.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 36, no. 6 (June 1949): 103-104.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 103",
"url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141561"
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 544",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n101"
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 189",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n213"
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.",
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"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n213"
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"citation": "\u201cA Check List. American Paintings and Water Colors of the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Early Twentieth Centuries in the Cleveland Museum of Art.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 60, no. 1 (January 1973): 21\u201335.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 26, no. 67",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 235",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n255"
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"citation": "Corriveau, Bethany. \"The Art of Storytelling.\u201d Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 56, no. 1 (January/February 2016): 21.",
"page_number": "Reproduced and Mentioned: p. 21.",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2016-01/page/20/mode/2up"
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"citation": "Chassey, Eric de. Made in USA: l'art ame\u0301ricain, 1908-1947 : Bordeaux, Muse\u0301e des beaux-arts, 10 octobre-31 de\u0301cembre 2001, Renne, Muse\u0301e des beaux-arts, 18 janvier-31 mars 2002, Montpellier, Muse\u0301e Fabre, 12 avril-23 juin 2001. Paris: Re\u0301union des muse\u0301es nationaux, 2001.",
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