Shop Girls
William James Glackens
ca. 1900 · Pastel and watercolor on illustration board · The American Wing
Like John Sloan, Glackens found his early subject in modern working women. This striking pastel, given to the Metropolitan by the modernist artist, critic, and collector A. E. Gallatin, captures the dynamism of crowded streets, where the mixing of genders, ethnicities, and classes increasingly defined urban life.
- Artist
- William James Glackens
- Date
- ca. 1900
- Medium
- Pastel and watercolor on illustration board
- Culture
- American
- Department
- The American Wing
- Credit line
- Gift of A. E. Gallatin, 1923
