SAINTS OF CHAOS 1934

Henry Glintenkamp was born in New Jersey in 1889. He studied under Robert Henri and has been regularly included in the Ash Can School. At one stage he shared a studio with Stuart Davis who like Glintenkamp also worked for the radical publication The Masses (see above). They both exhibited at the Armory Show in 1913.

The journal's anti-war stance which found a powerful voice in Glintenkamp was resisted by the American Government, and Glintenkamp with Art Young and Boardman Robinson and staff writers Floyd Dell and Max Eastman were charged under the Espionage Act. Glintenkamp fled the country for Mexico, and a first jury trial ended in failure to reach a decision. A second trial in 1919 found it equally difficult to establish unanimity. The action was then quietly dropped.

The artist lived for a time in Mexico and travelled widely in Europe. In the early 1920's he produced a portrait of the young actor Edith Evans. A portfolio of Linocuts of Spain is one of five books published between 1930 and 1934. His main publication is a visual travel log, A WANDERER IN WOODCUTS , 1932.

He died in 1946.

There is a collection of his papers in the Archives of American Art. There are biographies by Garnett McCoy and by Mantle Fielding ; see also Henry Glintenkamp, 1887-1946 : ash can years to expressionism : paintings and drawings 1908-1939, exhibition catalogue, Graham Gallery 1981.