Joseph Glasco (1925–1996) arrived on the New York art scene as a young man just as the Abstract Expressionist movement that would shape American culture in the post-war era was beginning to take hold. One of the most original artists of his generation, Glasco became the youngest artist to have his work acquired by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1949. He was also the youngest artist included in Fifteen Americans, the landmark 1952 exhibition organized by Dorothy Miller at MoMA that featured Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Clyfford Still. Over a career spanning nearly fifty years, Glasco's work entered the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Menil Collection, Yale University Art Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Princeton University Art Museum, and the Dallas Museum of Art, among others.

The Joseph Glasco Charitable Foundation is dedicated to fostering the legacy of Joseph Glasco through greater appreciation of his life and work. The Foundation's purpose is to ensure that museums, curators, scholars, and the public have the resources they need to advance their understanding of Glasco's contribution to American art history.