Beach Umbrellas at Blue Point
Smithsonian American Art Museum

Beach Umbrellas at Blue Point

William Glackens, born Philadelphia, PA 1870-died Westport, CT 1938 · ca. 1915

oil on canvas
Smithsonian American Art Museum
CC0 — Public Domain
Smithsonian American Art Museum

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.

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