Joseph Glasco

Joseph Glasco (1925 – May 31, 1996) was an American Abstract Expressionist painter and sculptor, best known for being at one time the youngest artist represented in the permanent collection of The Museum of Modern Art.

Early life

Joseph Glasco was born in Pauls Valley, Oklahoma, but grew up in Texas. He was a graduate of the University of Texas and enlisted in the army during World War II. After the war, he enrolled at the Portsmouth Art School in Bristol, England. He also studied at the School of Painting and Sculpture, in San Miguel d'Allende, Mexico.^[1]

New York

Glasco moved to New York and In 1949, after his first one-person exhibition in New York City, became the youngest artist represented at that time in the permanent collection of The Museum of Modern Art.

Glasco's work has often been compared to the work of Jackson Pollock and in the mid-1950s, he became friends with Pollock, sharing an intimacy over the shared themes of each other's work.

Works

Glasco's fame was its highest in the 1950s to 1970s, during which time his paintings and sculpture were regularly exhibited at some of the most notable museums and galleries of New York. His works varied from figures to abstract imagery. Today, his works are on permanent display in numerous museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.^[1]

Later years

Glasco moved back to Texas in the mid-1970s, locating in Galveston to a loft on the Strand. He was an important influence on a number of artists who came to public attention in that decade including George Condo, Julian Schnabel and Michael Tracy (NOT the same artist as artist Tracy 168).

External links

• NY Times obituary

References