Get a Glackens Certificate of Authenticity for your painting (COA) for your Glackens drawing.

For all your Glackens artworks you need a Certificate of Authenticity (COA) in order to sell, to insure or to donate for a tax deduction.

Getting a Glackens Certificate of Authenticity (COA) is easy. Just send us photos and dimensions and tell us what you know about the origin or history of your Glackens painting or drawing.

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We have been authenticating Glackens and issuing certificates of authenticity since 2002. We are recognized Glackens experts and Glackens certified appraisers. We issue COAs and appraisals for all Glackens artworks.

Our Glackens paintings and drawings authentications are accepted and respected worldwide.

Each COA is backed by in-depth research and analysis authentication reports.

The Glackens certificates of authenticity we issue are based on solid, reliable and fully referenced art investigations, authentication research, analytical work and forensic studies.

We are available to examine your Glackens painting or drawing anywhere in the world.

You will generally receive your certificates of authenticity and authentication report within two weeks. Some complicated cases with difficult to research Glackens paintings or drawings take longer.

Our clients include Glackens collectors, investors, tax authorities, insurance adjusters, appraisers, valuers, auctioneers, Federal agencies and many law firms.

We perform William James Glackens art authentication. appraisal, certificates of authenticity (COA), analysis, research, scientific tests, full art authentications. We will help you sell your William James Glackens or we will sell it for you.

William James Glackens was a U.S. realist painter. Glackens studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and later moved to New York City, where he co-founded what came to be called the Ashcan School art movement. He was known for his dark-hued paintings of street scenes and daily life in the city’s neighborhoods.

One of the country’s first Realist painters, Glackens belonged to a group of artists dubbed by the press “the Eight Independent Painters” or The Eight, who chose to exhibit their works without pre-approval by the juries of the existing art establishment. The Eight exhibited at the Macbeth Gallery in New York City in 1908, showing works outside the controlling group’s rigid definition of artistic beauty. The show went on to tour museums in nine U.S. cities over the next year.

During much of his career as a painter, Glackens also worked as an illustrator for newspapers and magazines in Philadelphia and New York City. His brother was the cartoonist and illustrator Louis Glackens. Still wondering about a Realist American painting in your family collection? Contact us…it could be by William Glackens.