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Henry J. Glintenkamp, American 1887-1946 browse these categories for related items... All Items: Fine Art:Paintings:Oil:N. America:American: Pre 1920: item # 694482
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| 20" x 26" oil on canvas, signed lower right and signed and dated verso, 1911. Hens in a farmyard. Priced unframed. Biography from AskART: Henry J. (Hendrik) Glitemkamp, born in 1887, exhibited in the famous 1913 Armory Show in New York City. A painter, printmaker, illustrator and sculptor, he studied at the Art Students League in New York City with Robert Henri. Glintenkamp, from 1913-1917, created illustrations for The Masses, the leftist magazine, working with editor-artist John Sloan, and painters George Bellows and Stuart Davis, and sharing a studio for a time with the latter artist. Glintenkamp's oil painting, Excavation Scene, c. 1910, 18 x 24, depicts in monochromatic, warm colors, a gaping foreground hole and remnants of walls flanked back and side by buildings and a construction crane. His Urban Rivals, 1911, 20 x 26, uses Ash-Can School realism to show a white dog and black cat in front of walls covered with tattered posters. Hoboken Rooftops is a moody, romantic, close-up of rooftops and misty distant harbor; darkly leaden, as if before a coming storm. Henry Glintenkamp's woodcuts, like his paintings often depicting urban life in New York City, Mexico and Spain, were boldly simplified to intense areas of black and white. His wood engravings and drawings explored similar subjects. Glintencamp lived in Mexico for extended periods during the first decades of the 20th century. He was friends with writer John Dos Passos and painter Diego Rivera. After life there and travels in England, he worked for the WPA (Federal Art Project) in New York City. Glintenkamp's book, A Wanderer in Woodcuts, was published in 1932 by Farrar & Rinehart in New York City. It describes the artist's European experience, with a woodcut on every right-hand page, and a modest amount of text on the left. His woodcut, Construction, is in the collection of Georgetown University, in Washington, D.C. Henry Glintenkamp died in 1946. | ||
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