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Lot 25
Glenn O. Coleman(1887-1932)The Dock 34 3/8 x 25 1/2 in. (87.3 x 64.8 cm.)
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Glenn O. Coleman (1887-1932)
The Dock
signed 'Coleman' (lower left)
oil on canvas
34 3/8 x 25 1/2 in. (87.3 x 64.8 cm.)
signed 'Coleman' (lower left)
oil on canvas
34 3/8 x 25 1/2 in. (87.3 x 64.8 cm.)
Footnotes
Provenance
Estate of the artist.
The Downtown Gallery, Inc., New York, by March 1939.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
Sale, Sotheby's, New York, December 1, 2004, lot 234.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Exhibited
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Glenn O. Coleman: Memorial Exhibition, October 18-November 16, 1932, pp. 12-13, no. 51, illustrated.
Bloomington, Illinois, Scottish Rite Temple, Central Illinois Art Exposition: An Exhibition of Paintings by Old Masters, Moderns and Contemporaries, March 19-April 8, 1939, p. 21, no. 60.
Literature
E.A. Jewell, "Glenn O. Coleman's Work: A Beautifully Presented Memorial Show at Whitney Museum of American Art," The New York Times, October 23, 1932, vol. LXXXII, no. 27,301, sec. 9, p. 10X, illustrated.
"Announce List of Paintings: These Works by Famous Artists Will Be in Bloomington March 19 to April 8," The Decatur Daily Review, Decatur, Illinois, March 14, 1939, sec. 2, p. 12.
Glenn O. Coleman's The Dock is a remarkable example within the artist's oeuvre that demonstrates his devoted interest in transcribing the lived experience in New York City. Born in Springfield, Ohio in 1887 and raised in Indianapolis, Indiana, Coleman began his life as an artist in his teenage years when he earned a position as an apprentice for a newspaper in Indianapolis. In 1905, he moved to New York where he studied briefly under Robert Henri (1865-1929) and Everett Shinn (1876-1953). Coleman struggled financially during much of his time in New York, but eventually found success as an artist. He began exhibiting in group and one-man exhibitions at Haas Gallery, The Daniel Gallery, and the Whitney Studio Galleries and was represented in the Armory show of 1913.
Throughout his artistic career, Coleman consistently drew on those aspects of life in New York that captured his attention. In the catalogue produced for the Whitney's memorial exhibition held for the artist in 1932 after his untimely death, John Sloan (1871-1951) brilliantly remarked that Coleman's, "Pictures are love letters to the great lady of his heart—Manhattan. They reveal his love and his understanding of his mighty mistress—no sentimentality, no blind devotion—but the deep, quiet love that loves the faults and weaknesses,—that loves too wisely to find glamour,—that loves deeply, strength to strength, as the sailor loves the sea." (Whitney Museum of American Art, Glenn O. Coleman: Memorial Exhibition, New York, 1932, p. 8.)
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The provenance for this work should now read as follows:
Provenance
Estate of the artist.
The Downtown Gallery, Inc., New York, by March 1939.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
Private collection, Long Island, New York.
Sale, Sotheby's, New York, December 1, 2004, lot 234, sold by the above.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.