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Accession #	56.70
Artist	William Glackens
Title	Girl with Apple
Date	1909-1910
Medium	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	39 7/16 x 56 3/16 in. (100.2 x 142.7 cm) frame: 46 3/4 x 63 3/4 x 2 3/4 in. (118.7 x 161.9 x 7 cm)
Signed	Signed lower left: "W. Glackens"
Credit Line	Dick S. Ramsay Fund
Location	American Identities: Expanding Horizons

Curatorial Remarks: Is this a modern Eve about to take a bite of the apple? William Glackens certainly counted on his viewers to make that association. Many of his models were young women earning their living in New York by entering the workforce in an expanding labor market. Glackens offered a fresh American update on the subject of the nude studio model by including a modern woman and fashionable contemporary attire. In paraphrasing one of France’s most famous paintings, Édouard Manet’s Olympia, he also aligned this work with one that was daring in its own time.