Glasco Publications and Resources

The 4th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Painting at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor in 1950 featured Glasco as well Albers, Beckman, de Kooning, Hofmann, Gottlieb, Pollock, Reinhardt, Rothko, Still, Tomlin and others.

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Glasco’s painting Portrait of a Poet was featured in the 1951 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting.

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Fifteen Americans was MoMA’s 1952 exhibition of the era’s top artists. Organized by famous curator, Dorothy Miller, Glasco’s inclusion helped to propel his career forward as a member of the booming New York art scene. He was youngest artist among those included. Among others featured were Baziotes, Corbett, Lipoid, Pollock, Rothko, Still, and Tomlin.

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The Whitney Museum of American Art featured Joseph Glasco’s work in this annual exhibition of contemporary art inaugurated in 1932. This 1951 Exhibition including drawings by de Kooning, Glasco, Grosz, Guston, Motherwell and Petrov among others.

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The International Exhibition, Painters under 40 was held in The Downtown Gallery on 51st Street, New York. Glasco, Ossorio and Motherwell were a few of the featured American artists featured along with international artists: Beny, Boccacci, Buffet, Mathieu and Zao Wou-Ki.

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The book Expressionism in American Painting explores the European roots of expressionism in contemporary American art. Artists featured include European artists: Gauguin, Kandinsky, Munch, Picasso, Van Gogh and Weber, as well as Americans: Beckman, de Kooning, Glasco, Gorky, Grosz, Guston, Hofmann, Lebrun, Shahn, Tobey and Tomlin among others.

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Glasco participated in the II Bienal Do Museu De Arte Moderna De Sao Paulo in 1953. The most remembered of all the Biennials, it is known as the 'Biennial of Guernica', referencing Pablo Picasso's most famous work of 1937. With almost double the number of works compared to the previous exhibition, the 2nd Biennial was held at Parque Ibirapuera, taking advantage of its inauguration and occupying two pavilions designed by Oscar Niemeyer (1907-2012): the Palácio dos Estados (current Pavilhão das Culturas Brasileiras) and the Palácio das Nações (current Museu Afro Brasil). It extended into the following year, to form part of the celebrations of the 4th Centenary of the city of São Paulo. The 2nd Bienal de São Paulo (1953) was a landmark exhibition, notably featuring Pablo Picasso's 

The 2nd Bienal de São Paulo (1953) was a landmark exhibition, notably featuring Pablo Picasso's Guernica alongside over 65 of his other works, highlighting major European movements. 

In addition to Glasco, other featured American artists included: Alexander Calder and Willem de Kooning..

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In 1952, the University of Illinois surveyed the field of American painting. This volume is the official record of the Fifth Annual Exhibition of American Painting as part of a month-long Festival of Contemporary Arts.

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This book, a critical theory text by famed French critic Michel Tapié was originally published in 1952. Republished on the occasion of the exhibition "Quelque Chose de Très Mystérieux: Intuitions Esthétiques de Michel Tapié," 1994. This publication situates Glasco among Informel, Art Brut, Surrealist and Lyrical Abstract artists Dubuffet, Hartung, de Kooning, Pollock and Ossorio among others.

This exhibition is one of a series that for twenty-one years prior had surveyed the field of contemporary American art. Glasco was again featured with artists de Kooning, Kline, Hofmann, Motherwell, Pollock, and others.

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This catalogue was a companion exhibition in 1954 to Young European Painters. In addition to works by Glasco, artists featured included: Baziotes, Diebenkorn, Guston, Kline, de Kooning, Motherwell and Pollock,

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This exhibition was an invitation-only exhibition by members of the Painting Department of the Art Institute. Glasco exhibited and was awarded a prize as was de Kooning. Other exhibiting artists included Albers, Calder, Francis, Gottlieb, Hofmann, Kline, O’Keeffe, and Pollock among others.

The New Decade, 35 American Painters and Sculptors was a Whitney Museum of American Art exhibition that travelled the United States in the Midwest and West Coast in 1955 and 1956. The exhibition was devoted to 35 American artists that emerged during the Post-War decade 1945-1955. Glasco’s works were featured with Baziotes, de Kooning, Gordin, Gottlieb, Hare, Kline, Lippold, Motherwell, Pickens, Pollock, Poussett-Dart, Reinhardt, Stamos, Tomlin and others.

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New Talent in the U.S. was selected by the Art in America committee and consultants and featured in this edition. Frankenthaler, Glasco and Kelly were featured among others.

The German publication Das Kunstwerk featured one Glasco’s unique and iconic drawings of a cat in motion.

In 1959, the Detroit Institute of Arts published this catalogue to accompany an exhibition of sculptural works by international artists from the Joseph H. Hirshorn collection.

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In 1962, the Solomon Guggenheim Museum published this catalogue to accompany an exhibition of sculptural works by international artists from the Joseph H. Hirshorn collection. Glasco’s work was exhibited with many masters of sculpture in the exhibition.

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he Whitney Museum of American Art featured Joseph Glasco’s sculpture in this annual exhibition of contemporary art inaugurated in 1932. This 1959 Exhibition including sculpture by Asawa, Cornell, Smith among many others.

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Selden Rodman’s 1961 book features interviews with top artists of the New York art scene to help create a portrait of the environment within which artists worked in New York in the 1950s.

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Renowned collector, Stanley J. Seeger, known for his impressive Picasso collection was also well-known for his Glasco collection. This catalogue, published to accompany an exhibition at The Art Museum at Princeton University in 1961 includes includes drawings, paintings and sculpture by Glasco, Afro, Beckmann, Birolli, Davie, Sage and Smith among others.

Drawings of the Masters, American Drawings is a compendium of drawings assembled by Bartlett H. Hayes, Jr., Director, Addision Gallery of American Art at Philips Academy which provides an historical look at American Drawing.

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Two Modern Collectors: Susan Morse Hilles, Richard Brown Baker is a Yale University Publication from 1963 featuring Glasco and many of his contemporaries collected by these two individuals.

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The catalogue accompanied works from the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, sponsored by the New York State Council on the Arts; circulated by the American Federation of Arts. Exhibition held at the Whitney Museum of American Art from July 23 to September 16, 1962. The exhibition traveled to various cities from October 14, 1962 - August 4, 1963.

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Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture was an exhibition in 1963 held at the College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois, Urbana, Krannert Art Museum. In addition to Glasco, artists including Francis, Frankenthaher, Gottlieb, Hartigan, Hoffman, Nevelson, Oliveira, Tobey and many others were exhibited.

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This publication accompanied the 8th exhibition sponsored by the Friends of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York in 1965. The theme of the survey represented the broad diversity and quality of American drawing. In addition to work by Glasco, the exhibition also included works by de Kooning, Guston, Hofmann, Johns, Motherwell, Oldenburg, and Rauschenberg among others.

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American Art, A Historical Survey written by Samuel M. Green, Ph.D., Harvard University and Chairman, Department of Art and Director Davison Art Center Wesleyan University, is an introductory survey of American art and architecture from the European settlement to 1966 when the book was published. The book was developed as a text for art and art history classes offered at the university level.

Arts Magazine, published in March, 1983 contains a rare interview by art critic and artist Vered Lieb in which Glasco discusses Hans Hofmann’s reaction to his abstract paintings, his influences and his thoughts about his works at that time.

American Figure Painting 1950-1980 was The Chrysler Museum’s 1980 exhibition curated by Thomas W. Styron, Curator of American and Contemporary Art. The exhibition focused on American figuration. In addition to Glasco, artists featured in the catalog include: de Kooning, Diebenkorn, Oliviera, Park, Pollock, and many others.

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This exhibition catalogue documented an exhibition organized by Marti Mayo and Elizabeth Ward for the Blaffer Museum, University of Houston, of which Mayo was the Director at the time. It encompassed the history of fine arts lithography from its beginning in the Nineteenth Century until the time of the show. The publication included a foreword by Dr. Peter Marzio, Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston at the time.

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The publication accompanied a survey of Houston area artists. Curated by Barbara Rose, Chief Curator of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston at the time, and art critic Suzie Calill, Glasco’s large screen, Untitled 1983, became the signature work of the exhibition and was subsequently purchased by the museum.

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Glasco’s first and only retrospective survey of his career, the catalogue accompanied a major exhibition organized by Marti Mayo, then curator at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. Authors with essays in the publication, in addition to Mayo, include Julian Schnabel with contributions by Elizabeth Ward.

This book, a Pulitzer prize winning best seller, on the life of Jackson Pollock references his relationship with Glasco

In 1989, Waddington Gallery, London exhibited Joseph Glasco’s monumental works. Some of the largest, most important works of Glasco’s late abstract period are reproduced in this catalogue.

The catalogue to this important 1991 New York exhibition featured three works by Glasco, among them the large, major work Big Green. The exhibition was curated by Richard Armstrong, John G. Hanhardt, Richard Marshall, and Lisa Phillips and also included works by Fischl, Haring, Johns, Katz, Lichtenstein, Moses, Rauschenberg, Schnabel, Sherman, Stella, Twombly and others.

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This catalogue, published in 1991 on the thirtieth anniversary of the Whitney Museum of American Art had the same title as as its inaugural 1961 exhibition. The catalogue follows the development of American art from the 1900s to the time of the exhibition. Glasco’s work is featured as well as artists Albers, de Kooning, Hopper, Marca-Relli, Motherwell.

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This historical look at Taos discusses Glasco’s time in its art colony of the 1950s. at a time when Diebenkorn, Reinhardt, Rothko and others spent time there.

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The important catalogue of the rich assortment of unique works on paper in the collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art comprises a rich collection of heretofore never published holdings of the Washington D.C. art museum, which closed in the early 2000s and its important collections dispersed among other Washington area institutions.

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The exhibition first took place at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, New York and travelled to other American museums in 1994. The accompanying catalogue includes reproduced drawings, 20 of which appear on separate color plates.

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Author Patricia Covo Johnson documents the unique evolution of contemporary art and artists in the large, fiercely independent and diverse state of Texas. The publication features Glasco’s late abstract works.

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Edited with an introduction by Robert Phillips, this book is a collection of letters that expresses the life of the writer William Goyen. Glasco, Goyen’s partner for several years is featured.

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The exhibition was Glasco’s last and opened six months prior to his death in 1986. While Glasco chose the works to be shown, chose the author of the accompanying publication (Mayo), and installed the exhibition, he was too ill at the time to attend its preview celebration. The artist considered it to be his gift to Galveston, his home base from the early 1970s until his death.

This volume explains the artistic development of modern art from its impressionistic beginnings in the nineteenth century to the turn of the 20th century. Glasco’s work titled ‘Big Green’ which was exhibited at the Whitney Biennial in 1991 is featured.

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Modernists in Taos: From Dasburg to Martin was published in 2002 by David L. Witt. The book chronicles development of modern art in Taos from the period 1918 to 1979. Glasco is described as a very young arrival to Taos. Other artists discussed include: Martin, O’Keefe among many others.

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Harvard University Art Museum assembled this monograph which includes letters and collected works of Lois Orswell. Published by Yale University Press. it accompanied an exhibition at Harvard’s Fogg Art Museum in 2003 and included work by Glasco.

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Fascinating book on the CIA’s role in promoting American cultural soft power.

This book is a history of artists and writers who lived and worked in East Hampton across two centuries. It places Glasco in the Hamptons in the late 1940s and early 1950s along with Ossorio, Krasner and Pollock, Bill and Elaine de Kooning, Rothko, and Still among others.

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Auspicious Vision: Edward Wales Root and American Modernism published in 2008. Edward Wales Root was one of Munson-Williams Proctor Art Institutes greatest benefactors. This book is the 50th anniversary tribute to Root’s bequest in 1957 of 227 paintings and works on paper which include three Glasco works collected by Root.

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Clark Davis’ study of the relationship between William Goyen’s life and work. Goyen and Glasco were partners for ten years of Glasco’s life.

Author and art historian, Michael Raeburn, documents the life and art of Joseph Glasco in this historical biography. From his early life in East Texas, service in WW II and his subsequent arrival in New York in the late 1940s until his death in 1996, this book provides the most comprehensive look at the the artist ever written.

This book written by Julian Schnabel was originally published in 1987 and reprinted in 2015. Schnabel recounts his early career and includes his friendship with Glasco and their influence on one another.

The catalogue, which accompanied an exhibition at the Musee De L’Echevinage includes reproductions of Glasco’s work included in the show, some of Glasco’s last works on paper.

Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center held an exhibition of Joseph Glasco’s late works in 2019. The publication features images of Glasco’s paintings as well as essays by Marti Mayo.

This book highlights that William Goyen and Joseph Glasco were pallbearers at Frieda Lawrence’s funeral.

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