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Description: PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF ARTHUR G. ALTSCHUL

FOR THE CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE BACK-LOT LEAGUE (THE FOOTBALL GAME)

measurements
23 by 17 in.

alternate measurements
(58.4 by 43.2 cm)

signed W. Glackens, l.l.

black ink and watercolor on paper

Executed in 1911.

PROVENANCE

Charles T. Henry
James Graham & Sons, New York
Acquired from the above, 1953

EXHIBITED

Stamford, Connecticut, Stamford Museum, September 1958
St. Louis, Missouri, City Art Museum; Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution, National Collection of Fine Arts; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, William Glackens in Retrospect, November 1966-June 1967, no. 115, illustrated
Rutgers, New Jersey, The University Art Gallery of Rutgers, The Art of William Glackens, January-February 1967, no. 82, p. 19
Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American Art, Metropolitan Lives: The Ashcan Artists and Their New York, November 1995-March 1996, no. 27, fig. 150, illustrated in color p. 140

LITERATURE

Colliers Magazine, November 11, 1911, illustrated p. 8
Nancy E. Allyn and Elizabeth H. Hawkes, William Glackens, A Catalogue of His Magazine and Book Illustrations, Delaware Art Museum, 1987, no. 116, p. 14