Jacob Glushakow

Jacob Glushakow (1914 – October 12, 2000) was an American painter known for his fervent observations of simulation in the city of Baltimore, Maryland, United States.

Jacob Glushakow was the oldest of 11 children born to Esther and Abraham Glushakow. He was born on the steamship Brandenburg though crossing the Atlantic from Bremen to Baltimore. His daddy was a clothing presser and candy maker and was as a consequence the host of a Jewish-American radio program. Jacob's parents left Ukraine days previously the outbreak of World War I.

Jacob was raised in East Baltimore at Eden and Baltimore streets and attended Baltimore City Public Schools. He graduated from the Baltimore City College high school in 1933 and went upon to the Maryland Institute College of Art and the Art Students League in New York, where he studied from 1933 to 1936. During his epoch in New York he taught a children's art class at a public school in the Bronx as allocation of the Works Progress Administration project.

Glushakow spent beyond sixty years painting the neighborhoods of his hometown. His works reflect an incorporation in the everyday, often including views of clash houses, markets, streets. They present a wedding album of Baltimore's past, and feature a somewhat melancholic view of the urban setting considering a wealthy history that has disappeared. Glushakow studied art at the Maryland Institute College of Art, the Jewish Educational Alliance, and at the Art Students League in New York. He remained loyal to a traditional realist style of painting throughout his career. His pretend can be found in the steadfast collections of The Baltimore Museum of Art, The Phillips Collection, The Jewish Museum of Maryland, the Maryland Historical Society and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, among others.

http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2000-10-15/news/0010140302_1_life-in-baltimore-modern-painting-museum-of-art

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