";s:4:"text";s:3511:" Early in his career, he painted in a more somber, realist mode like that championed by … All Rights Reserved | William Glackens and the Eight: The Artists Who Freed American ArtThe World of William Glackens: The C. Richard Hilker Art LecturesThe Athenaeum - Comprehensive collection of all paintings by GlackensThe Beauty of the Everyday: William Glackens Spent a Life Painting What Was Before Him One of the first American artists to find success without training in Europe, Glackens's attention to color and expressive brushwork, along with his willingness to experiment, marked a turn towards Williams Glackens was born the youngest of three children to Elizabeth and Samuel Glackens, a clerk and cashier for the Pennsylvania Railroad.