“Downtown Street,” 1926
“Glenn O. Coleman’s career as a celebrated Gotham illustrator and painter was a short one. Born in Ohio in 1887, he grew up in Indiana and arrived in Manhattan in 1905 to attend the New York School of Art, studying under Robert Henri and Everett Shinn. Coleman earned a name for himself in the 1910s and 1920s city art scene with ‘personal depictions of simple, struggling humanity,’ as the Spellman Gallery put it. His illustrations (some of which he made into lithographs) and paintings reflected the subject matter of his Ashcan teachers: Bowery bums, election night bonfires, slum kids, cops, criminals, ‘silk-hatted tourists,’ bar stool sitters, and other denizens of Lower Manhattan’s pockets and corners, typically at night. ...”
“Coenties Slip,” 1928
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