Live Auction 2318Important American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture
Christie’s roundel
Lot 146 Bernard Goldberg Fine Arts: The Collection

William James Glackens (1870-1938)

Storm Over the Beach

Closed20 May 2010

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William James Glackens (1870-1938)
Storm Over the Beach
oil on panel
6¼ x 8½ in. (15.9 x 21.6 cm.)
Painted circa 1900-05.

The artist.
Estate of the above.
Ira Glackens, son of the artist.
[With]Kraushaar Galleries, Inc., New York, 1953.
Private collection, New York.
[With]Spanierman Gallery, LLC, New York.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2000.

Specialist note

The present work most likely depicts Coney Island, which at the time was the most popular of New York's beaches. While his Impressionist contemporaries preferred to paint the quieter, rural beachfronts of Long Island, William Glackens became one of the first artists to explore the pictorial delights of the more frequented and commercial Coney Island.