Washington Square Sketchbook
William James Glackens American
Not on view
Throughout his career drawing was fundamental to Glackens’s creative practice as a recorder of modern urban life. He filled portable bound sketchbooks with on-the-spot observations ranging from street activity to figural gesture, pose, and motion. Handling his crayon with a deft immediacy, Glackens marked page after page with everyday reference points that inspired his magazine illustrations and ambitious works in watercolor, pastel, and oil. His son, Ira, later referred to these sketchbooks as “the records of a lifetime observing humanity.”
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