Family Group
This painting shows four individuals - three women and one child - in an indoor setting. One woman is seated on a chair on the left, wearing a purple and blue dress under a black coat, with white gloves and a gray hat. Next to her, sitting on an arm of the chair, is another woman with blonde hair, wearing a light teal dress. To the right, in the center of the painting, a child stands, wearing a blue dress or tunic. On the far right, a third woman sits on a bench, wearing a bright red-and-white dress with a white-and-blue hat capped with a white feather, as well as long white gloves. All of the people have pale skin, and their faces are detailed. The room around them has other colorful furniture, including two armchairs in shades of red and teal, and the walls are in shades of light blue and cream. Red curtains hang over an open window or balcony, and there's a painting in a gold frame on a wall on the right. The orange floor beneath them is covered in several colorful, patterned rugs.
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Details
- Artist
- William Glackens
- Date
- 1910/1911
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- overall: 182.8 x 213.3 cm (71 15/16 x 84 in.) framed: 200.7 x 231.1 x 7 cm (79 x 91 x 2 3/4 in.)
- Department
- CAB
- Holding institution
- National Gallery of Art
- Palette
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- Image provider
- national-gallery-of-art
- License
- CC0-1.0
- Credit
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ira Glackens
Art Genome Taxonomy
10 tags
Subject Matter
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Family Metadata · 96%
The catalog title is Family Group, supporting a family-related subject classification without identifying the sitters’ precise relationships.
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Group Portrait Both · 99%
The catalog identifies four individuals, and the image visibly presents three women and a child as an organized ensemble of sitters.
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Interiors Both · 99%
The catalog describes an indoor setting, which is clearly visible as a furnished room with seating, curtains, rugs, flowers, and framed artwork.
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Childhood Both · 99%
A child is explicitly identified in the catalog and is visibly positioned near the center of the composition.
Visual Qualities
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Dense Composition Visual · 96%
Figures, furniture, textiles, curtains, framed artwork, and other details occupy nearly the entire broad canvas, producing a visually full and crowded arrangement.
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Bright and Vivid Colors Visual · 96%
The painting uses strongly saturated reds, oranges, teals, blues, greens, and purples across clothing, furnishings, rugs, and the background.
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Patterns Visual · 97%
Repeated decorative motifs are clearly visible in the rugs, upholstery, curtains, clothing, and central upholstered furniture.
Medium and Techniques
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Painting Metadata · 100%
The museum classifies the work as a painting.
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Oil Painting Metadata · 100%
The supplied medium is oil on canvas.
Time Periods
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1900 - 1917 Art Metadata · 100%
The work is dated 1910/1911, placing it within the 1900–1917 period.
Source & rights
William Glackens. Family Group. Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington.
High-resolution sources
- IIIF image service ↗ 18,400 × 15,681 · National Gallery Of Art · Available