Beach Umbrellas at Blue Point
William Glackens
ca. 1915
Medium
Painting
Classification
Painting
Department
Smithsonian Collection
Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Credit
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ira Glackens
Accession Number
1968.1
Tags
hotelumbrellaFigure groupBlue Pointbeachswimming
About this artwork
William Glackens rejected the elegant Gilded age painting style shown in the country's art academies in favor of street scenes filled with regular people -- immigrants on the Lower East Side, "modern" young women strolling in the city's parks, and sun worshippers enjoying a day at the beach. His paintings, and those of his friends in the so-called "Ashcan School," asserted the centrality of ordinary Americans in the early years of the twentieth century. Paintings by these artists provided a mode...