At Mouquin's
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
122.4 × 92.1 cm (48 1/8 × 36 1/4 in.)
Classification
oil on canvas
Department
Arts of the Americas
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
15401
Art Historical Context
William J. Glackens' *At Mouquin's* (1905), an oil on canvas measuring 122.4 × 92.1 cm, a vibrant slice of early 20th-century New York life. Housed in the Art Institute of Chicago's Department Arts of the Americas, substantial painting evokes the bustling atmosphere of Mouquin's, a famed French restaurant in Greenwich Village among artists and bohemi. Glackens, key figure in American Realism and the Ashcan School used the medium's rich textures and bold colors to render intimate interior scenes with everyday vitality. Painted during a transformative era in American art, just before the landma...