Artist: William Glackens
تاريخ: 1912
متحف: The Phillips Collection (Washington, D.C.)
تقنية: Oil On Canvas
After nearly a decade and a half of painting in the muted colors and gestural brushstrokes of his teacher Robert Henri, Glackens surprised the New York art world in 1908 with a vivid and highly colored painting that he showed in the winter exhibition of the National Academy of Design. He was encouraged to experiment with bright color harmonies by his friends Maurice Prendergast and Ernest Lawson, who were also members of The Eight, and Alfred Maurer, who had embraced Fauvism in 1907. In 1912, Glackens traveled to Paris, where he saw an explosion of color in the works of the Impressionists, Post-Impressionists, and Fauves, works that further reinforced his new direction. Glackens spent the summers between 1911 and 1916 at Bellport, Long Island, a quiet, unspoiled community that attracted artists, writers, and musicians. There he painted a series of beach scenes— vibrant canvases that depart from his somber and dreary work of earlier years. During the Bellport summers Glackens painted numerous works at Great South Bay that showed his family and friends enjoying summer pleasures—the sun and the beach, sailing and swimming. In Bathers at Bellport, horizontal docks and sand bars bound the sparkling blue water; bright yellow ocher and burnt sienna bathhouses contrast with crisp white sails. A visual memory of the summer of 1912, this work reveals Glackens
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