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Her blue dress and dark hat dominate."},"main_reference_number":"1925.295","has_not_been_viewed_much":false,"boost_rank":null,"date_start":1905,"date_end":1905,"date_display":"1905","date_qualifier_title":"","date_qualifier_id":null,"artist_display":"William Glackens (American, 1870\u20131938)","place_of_origin":"United States","description":"<p>In this vivid painting, William Glackens portrayed the members of his circle at their favorite meeting place, the New York restaurant Mouquin\u2019s. Jeanne Mouquin, the proprietor\u2019s wife, shares a drink with James B. Moore, a wealthy playboy and restaurateur, while the artist\u2019s wife, Edith, and art critic Charles Fitzgerald are reflected in the mirror behind them. Glackens used vivid brushwork to describe Jeanne Mouquin\u2019s dress, while depicting her with an intent gaze that imbues the scene with tension and mystery. By combining portraiture and everyday scenes, the artist helped usher in a mode of painting suited to the uncertainties and new social activities of modern urban life.<\/p>\n","short_description":"William Glackens here portrayed members of his circle at a New York restaurant. The proprietor\u2019s wife shares a drink with a wealthy playboy and restaurateur, while the artist\u2019s wife and an art critic are reflected in the mirror. By combining portraiture and everyday scenes, Glackens helped usher in a mode of painting suited to the uncertainties and new social activities of modern urban life.","dimensions":"122.4 \u00d7 92.1 cm (48 1\/8 \u00d7 36 1\/4 in.)","dimensions_detail":[{"depth":null,"width":92,"height":122,"diameter":null,"clarification":null}],"medium_display":"Oil on canvas","inscriptions":"Signed, lower left: \"W. Glackens\"","credit_line":"Friends of American Art Collection","catalogue_display":null,"publication_history":"Judith Barter et al., <em>Art and Appetite: American Painting, Culture, and Cuisine<\/em>, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 2013), 125\u201329, 223, cat. 18, fig. 20 (ill.).\n\nElizabeth Thompson Colleary, The WIlliam J. Glackens Collection in the Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale (2014), 30\u201333 (ill.).","exhibition_history":"Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Tenth Annual Exhibition, Nov. 2, 1905\u2013Jan. 1, 1906.\n\nNew York, Macbeth Galleries, The Eight, Feb. 3\u201315, 1908.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago Paintings by Eight American Artists, Sept. 8\u2013Oct. 8, 1908; Detroit Institute of Arts, Dec. 1908, John Herron Art Institute of Indianapolis, Jan. 6\u201329, 1909, Cincinnati Art Museum, Feb. 8\u201328, 1909, Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Mar. 5\u201331, 1909.\n\nSan Francisco, Department of Fine Arts, Panama\u2013Pacific International Exposition, June 2\u2013Sept. 6, 1915\n\nParis, Chambre Syndicale des Beaux Arts, Exhibition of American Art, June 9\u2013July 5, 1924.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Thirty\u2013Eighth Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture, Oct. 29\u2013Dec. 13, 1925.\n\nNew York City, Museum of Modern Art, American Painting and Sculpture 1862\u20131932, Oct. 31, 1932\u2013Jan. 31, 1933. \n\nArt Institute of Chicago, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artic.edu\/exhibitions\/5626\/a-century-of-progress-loan-exhibition-of-paintings-and-sculpture-1933\"><em>A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture<\/em><\/a>, May 23\u2013Oct. 31, 1933, cat.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artic.edu\/exhibitions\/3355\/a-century-of-progress-loan-exhibition-of-art-for-1934\"><em>A Century of Progress<\/em><\/a>, June 1\u2013Oct. 31, 1934, cat.\n\nToledo Museum of Art, Twenty\u2013Second Annual Exhibition of Selected Paintings by Contemporary American Artists, June 2\u2013Aug. 25, 1935, no. 21.\n\nHartford, Conn., Wadsworth Atheneum, American Painting and Sculpture of the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth Centuries, Jan. 29\u2013Feb. 19, 1935.\n\nCleveland Museum of Art, American Painting from 1860 Until Today, 1937.\n\nBaltimore Museum of Art, Two Hundred Years of American Painting, Jan. 15\u2013Feb. 29, 1938.\n\nNew York City, Whitney Museum of American Art, William Glackens Memorial Exhibition, Dec. 14, 1938\u2013Jan. 15, 1939. \n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Half a Century of American Art, Nov. 16, 1939\u2013Jan. 7, 1940.\n\nNorthampton, Mass., Smith College Museum of Art, Aspects of American Painting 1900\u20131940, June 12\u201322, 1940.\n\nNew York City, Whitney Museum of American Art, This is Our City, Mar. 11\u2013Apr. 13, 1941.\n\nBrooklyn Museum, The Eight, Nov. 24, 1943\u2013Jan. 16, 1944.\n\nPhiladelphia Museum of Art, Artists of the Philadelphia Press, Oct. 14\u2013Nov. 18, 1945.\n\nLondon, Tate Gallery, American Painting, Jun\u2013July 1946.\n\nNew York City, Kraushaar Gallery, Paintings and Drawings by William Glackens, 1948\u20131949.\n\nMetropolitan Museum of Art, 75th Anniversary Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture by 75 Artists Associated with the Art Students Leagure of New York, 1951, cat. 27, ill.\n\nNew York, Wildenstein and Company, <em>Landmarks in American Art, 1670\u20131950<\/em>, Feb. 26\u2013Mar. 28, 1953, cat.\n\nNew York Century Club, Mar. 31\u2013May 30, 1954.\n\nPennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, One Hundred Fifieth Annual Exhibition, Jan. 15\u2013Mar. 13, 1955.\n\nBuffalo, Albright Art Gallery, Fifty Paintings: 1905\u20131913, May 14\u2013June 12, 1955.\n\nPhiladelphia Museum of Art, American Painting, 1955.\n\nPittsburgh, Carnegie Institute Museum of Art, Retrospective of Carnegie International Exhibitions, 1959.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artic.edu\/exhibitions\/4071\/two-centuries-of-american-art-1750-1950\"><em>Two Centuries of American Art, 1750-1950<\/em><\/a>, Oct. 1, 1959\u2013Jan. 10, 1960, no cat. [downloadable checklist available].\n\nMinneapolis Museum of Art, Four Centuries of American Art, Nov. 27, 1963\u2013Jan. 19, 1964.\n\nCity Art Museum of St. Louis, William Glackens in Retrospective, 1966\u20131967; Washington DC, Smithsonian Institute, New York City, Whitney Museum of American Art.\n\nLakeview Center for the Arts and Sciences, The Eight, Sept. 12\u2013Nov. 9, 1969.\n\nNew York City, National Academy of Design, Turn\u2013of\u2013the\u2013Century America, June 30, 1977\u2013May 28, 1978.\n\nNew York City, Metropolitan Museum of Art, American Painters of Modern Life: Impressionism and Realism, 1994\u20131995; Ft. Worth, Amon Carter Museum, Denver Art Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art.\n\nNew York City, Whitney Museum of American Art, The American Century: Art and Culture, 1999.\n\nFrist Center for the Visual Arts, Life's Pleasures: the Ashcan Artist's' Brush with Leisure, 1895\u20131925, Aug. 2\u2013Oct. 28, 2007; New York Historical Society, Nov. 18, 2007\u2013Feb. 10, 2008; Detroit Institute of Arts, Mar. 2\u2013May 25, 2008, New York and Detroit only.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artic.edu\/exhibitions\/1399\/art-and-appetite-american-painting-culture-and-cuisine\"><em>Art and Appetite: American Painting, Culture, and Cuisine<\/em><\/a>, Nov. 10, 2013\u2013Jan. 27, 2014, cat. 18; Fort Worth, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Feb. 22\u2013May 18, 2014.\n\nThe Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, William Glackens, Feb. 23\u2013June 1, 2014; Water Mill, New York, Parrish Art Museum, July 20\u2013Oct. 13, 2014; Philadelphia, Barnes Foundation, Nov. 8, 2014\u2013Feb. 2, 2015 (Philadelphia only) cat. 45.","provenance_text":"C.W. 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