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The Gilded Age in New York, 1870-1910
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New York City In 3D: In The Gilded Age
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A social realist painter’s captivating study of consumerism and class in Gilded Age New York
William Glackens, a social realist painter and founding member of the Ashcan School, didn’t have to go far for the subjects and setting of his 1907-1908 painting, The Shoppers.
The woman in the center is his wife, Edith. She’s interacting with three friends in a department store, perhaps Wanamaker’s, which opened on Broadway and Astor Place in the early 1900s, near the Glackens’ West Ninth Stre
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