Joseph Glasco was born in Paul’s Valley, Oklahoma and grew up in Texas. In 1949, after his first one-person exhibition in New York, Glasco became the youngest artist represented at that time in the permanent collection of The Museum of Modern Art.
Glasco’s rhythmical, all-over abstract compositions have often been linked with those of American artist Jackson Pollock. During the 1950s, Glasco became friends with Pollock; the two seemed to share an affinity for the element of chance in their work. In the late 1970s, Glasco first created his collaged canvases such as “Untitled #7″ . They were made from irregular scraps of canvas painted and glued unevenly onto an underlying abstract painting. According to Glasco, ” . . . there is a need in me to do sculpture and it somehow comes out when I paint and use material on top of material, . . . which is what sculpture is about.”
Mr. Glasco’s paintings and sculpture were widely shown at New York museums and galleries from the 1950’s to the 1970’s and ranged from stylized figures to completely abstract imagery.
His work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City; the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston.
Works by Joseph Glasco
Standing Man, 1955 Joseph Glasco
Standing Man, 1956 Joseph Glasco
Three Heads Joseph Glasco
The Game, 1961 Joseph Glasco
Seated Male, 1969 Joseph Glasco
Reclining Figure, 1969 Joseph Glasco
Head, 1970 Joseph Glasco
Flowers, 1970 Joseph Glasco
Reclining Figure, facing right (Nikos), 1971 Joseph Glasco
Stanley's House from the Garden, Lanzarote, 1971 Joseph Glasco
Head, 1971 Joseph Glasco
Seated Woman, 1971 Joseph Glasco
Reclining Male Figure (For Nick), 1971 Joseph Glasco
Woman with Blanket, 1973 Joseph Glasco
Head I, 1973 Joseph Glasco
Fern, 1973 Joseph Glasco
Venus, 1974 Joseph Glasco
Reclining Nude, 1976 Joseph Glasco
Untitled No. 8, 1978 Joseph Glasco
Untitled, 1978-79 Joseph Glasco
Untitled I, 1979 Joseph Glasco
Untitled, 1980 Joseph Glasco
Untitled, 1978-81 Joseph Glasco
Lanzorate, 1985 Joseph Glasco
Untitled, 1988-1995 Joseph Glasco
Walking Man, 1949 Joseph Glasco
Standing Figure, 1950 Joseph Glasco
Figure Study, 1950 Joseph Glasco
Untitled (Figure with Palmistry Chart), c. 1955 Joseph Glasco
Reclining Female Figure, 1950 Joseph Glasco
Study of a Head, c. 1953 Joseph Glasco
Ischia, c. 1953-54 Joseph Glasco
Michelangelo's David, 1954 Joseph Glasco
Woman Shelling Peas, 1954 Joseph Glasco
Figure in Ostia, 1954 Joseph Glasco
Dancing Figure, 1954 Joseph Glasco
Figure Standing in a Pool, 1954 Joseph Glasco
Figure, 1955 Joseph Glasco
My Own Sweet Swan, 1956 Joseph Glasco
Bathsheba, 1956 Joseph Glasco
Standing Figure, 1967 Joseph Glasco
Seated Figure, 1970 Joseph Glasco
Standing Man, 1971 Joseph Glasco
Male Standing Man (Nikos), 1971 Joseph Glasco
Standing Figure I, 1950 Joseph Glasco
Set Design for The House of Breath, 1954 Joseph Glasco
Set Design for The Diamond Rattler, c.1954 Joseph Glasco
John Cage Directing, 1954 Joseph Glasco
Untitled Cat, 1954 Joseph Glasco
Fire Island, 1967 Joseph Glasco
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The Sunbath, Study, 1949 Joseph Glasco
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Boy, 1950 Joseph Glasco
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Animal, 1950 Joseph Glasco
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Summer, 1951 Joseph Glasco
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Head (The Lovers of the Filth And the Wheel was Tied to The Door), 1951 Joseph Glasco
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Marvello, 1953 Joseph Glasco
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Standing Cat in Blue Landscape, 1953 Joseph Glasco
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Conversation, 1953 Joseph Glasco
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Red and Black Lady, 1953 Joseph Glasco
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Head (Red and Orange Abstract), 1953 Joseph Glasco
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The Death of Procris, 1955 Joseph Glasco
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Salome, 1955 Joseph Glasco
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Interior with Standing Man, 1955 Joseph Glasco
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Head, 1955 Joseph Glasco
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Man with Mirror, 1955 Joseph Glasco
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Man with a Mirror, 1955 Joseph Glasco
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Head I, 1955 Joseph Glasco
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Standing Man, 1955 Joseph Glasco
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Head II, 1955 Joseph Glasco
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Reclining Figure, c. 1955 Joseph Glasco
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Portrait of a Young Lady, 1956 Joseph Glasco
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Leda, 1956 Joseph Glasco
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Owl on Rock, 1956 Joseph Glasco
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Head, 1956 Joseph Glasco
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Head, 1958 Joseph Glasco
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Madonna, 1960 Joseph Glasco
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Scarlet Letter, 1962 Joseph Glasco
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Queen of Sheba, 1962-63 Joseph Glasco
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The City, 1963 Joseph Glasco
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Abstract, 1963 Joseph Glasco
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Two Heads in Orange and Blue, 1966 Joseph Glasco
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Couple, 1968 Joseph Glasco
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Head, 1969 Joseph Glasco
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Two Heads, c. 1970-74 Joseph Glasco
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Two Heads, c. 1970 Joseph Glasco
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Ariadne on Naxos, c. 1970 Joseph Glasco
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Ariadne, 1970 Joseph Glasco
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Three Heads, 1970 Joseph Glasco
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Seated Nude I, c. 1970 Joseph Glasco
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Portrait of David, 1970 Joseph Glasco
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Two Heads I, c. 1970 Joseph Glasco
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Two Heads Joseph Glasco
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Standing Figures A Multiple Portrait of Stanley J. Seeger Jr., 1971 Joseph Glasco
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Reclining Figure, facing left (Nikos), 1971 Joseph Glasco
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Interior with Figure (Stanley), 1971 Joseph Glasco
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Garden in The Canaries, 1971 Joseph Glasco
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Reclining Male Figure, 1971 Joseph Glasco
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Standing Man I, 1971 Joseph Glasco
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Seated Figure with Dog, 1971 Joseph Glasco
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Standing Man, Hero, 1972 Joseph Glasco
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Rock Lady, Janis Joplin, 1972 Joseph Glasco
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Lanzarote Landscape, 1972 Joseph Glasco
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Liz, 1973 Joseph Glasco
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Narcissus I, c. 1970 Joseph Glasco
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Two Figures, 1973 Joseph Glasco
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Portrait of Duke, c. 1973 Joseph Glasco
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Reclining Nude, 1973 Joseph Glasco
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Horse, 1973 Joseph Glasco
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Backstage at the Fillmore East, 1973 Joseph Glasco
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Standing Nude, 1973 Joseph Glasco
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Mick Jagger, 1973 Joseph Glasco
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Figures Kissing, 1974 Joseph Glasco
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Two Heads, 1974 Joseph Glasco
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Sue at Rest, 1975 Joseph Glasco
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Figure, 1976 Joseph Glasco
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Conversation , 1976 Joseph Glasco
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Untitled I, 1978 Joseph Glasco
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Untitled, 1979 Joseph Glasco
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Untitled II, 1979 Joseph Glasco
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Big Diamond, 1980 Joseph Glasco
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Landscape with Trees, Cobalt and Black, 1985 Joseph Glasco
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Untitled, 1985 Joseph Glasco
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Landscape with Trees, 1985 Joseph Glasco
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Seated Figure, 1950 Joseph Glasco
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Anthropomorphic and Botanic Forms, 1950 Joseph Glasco
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Figural Abstract, 1952 Joseph Glasco
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Horse's Head, 1953 Joseph Glasco
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Horse, 1953 Joseph Glasco
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Standing Figure, 1954 Joseph Glasco
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Two Women, 1954 Joseph Glasco
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Head, 1954 Joseph Glasco
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Tree, 1954 Joseph Glasco
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Three Bathers, 1985 Joseph Glasco