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 William Glackens - Hartford, CT Posted by:  neoc1
N 41° 43.192 W 072° 41.954
18T E 691383 N 4621232
The grave of artist William Glackens is located in Cedar Hill Cemetery in Hartford, CT.
Waymark Code: WM10H7J
Location: Connecticut, United States
Date Posted: 05/08/2019
Views: 2
The grave of William Glackens is located in a plot belonging to his wife's family Edith Dimock, also an artist. The 20' granite monument contains an inscribed stele flanked by a pair of Doric columns that support a lintel with relief of a garland. The stele is inscribed:
IRA DIMOCK
JAN. 15, 1828 - MAY 10, 1917
LENNA LOUISE DEMONT HIS WIFE
JAN. 14, 1847 - MAY 1, 1917
ARTHUR WRIGHT DIMOCK
FEB. 14, 1881 - FEB. 1, 1887
IRVING DIMOCK
SEPT. 9, 1873 - SEPT. 21, 1898
STANLEY DIMOCK
MAY 29, 1878 - JUNE 28, 1969
SYDNEY V. DUBOIS HIS WIFE
OCT. 26, 1887 - SEPT. 7, 1931
WILLIAM GLACKENS N.A.
MARCH 13, 1870 - MAY 22, 1938
EDITH DIMOCK
FEB.16, 1876 - OCT. 28, 1955
LENNA GLACKENS BORTON
DEC. 6, 1912 - JUNE 3, 1943
FLORENCE I. DIMOCK
WIFE OF
CHARLES FITZGERALD
MAY 14, 1889 - JAN. 31, 1962
Description:
William Glackens was one of eight founding member of a group of artists known as the Ashcan School of American Art. This genre featured dark and vibrantly painted street scenes depicting of daily life in pre-WW I New York and Paris. Glackens was also an illustrator for the The Philadelphia Record, The New York World and the New York Herald.
In 1904, Glackens married the artist Edith Dimock, who was the daughter of a wealthy Connecticut family. Together they had two children, Lenna and Ira.
By 1910, Glackens began to paint in a more impressionistic style similar to that of Renoir. He became known as the "American Renoir".
Glackens was elected as an associate member of the National Academy of Design in 1906 and became a full member in 1933, hence the N.A. suffix after his name.
Glackens work is widely exhibited in museums of art. His paintings can be found in the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. the Museum of American Art in New Britain, CT., the Brooklyn Museum, etc. The largest collection of Glackens' paintings, over 500 paintings, are located at the Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL.
Date of birth: 03/13/1870
Date of death: 05/22/1938
Area of notoriety: Art
Marker Type: Monument
Setting: Outdoor
Visiting Hours/Restrictions: Daylight Hours
Fee required?: No
Web site: [Web Link]
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