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William J. Glackens's (1870-1938) uncanny ability to capture movement through gesture led to his distinguishing himself in the 1880s as one of America's most important illustrators. His lively, often amusing drawings illustrate specific narrative moments in numerous books and stories in highly popular, avidly read American magazines, such as Cosmopolitan, Everybody's Magazine, McClure's, and The Saturday Evening Post. This exhibition reveals Glackens's brilliance as an illustrator as well as his ongoing reliance on drawing after deciding in the 1890s to turn to painting, in which he gained equal distinction from the 1900s to his death in 1938. Numerous examples of his early illustrations will be on display with approximately thirty Glackens paintings dating from the 1900s-1930s, along with the drawings he made as a means of developing and refining their forms and compositions. All works are drawn from the Museum's extensive collection of works by Glackens, bequeathed to the Museum by his son, Ira Glackens at the time of his death in 1990, and subsequently by the Sansom Foundation founded in the 1950s by Ira and his wife, Nancy Glackens.

William J. Glackens: From Pencil to Paint is organized by NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale and is curated by Barbara Buhler Lynes, Ph.D., Sunny Kaufman Senior Curator.

Click here to see Glackens on Paper: From San Juan Hill to Washington Square, a lecture by Carol Troyen, the Kristin and Roger Servison Curator Emerita of American Paintings at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The lecture explores William Glackens' development as a draftsman between 1895 and 1915.