Edith Dimock
| Edith Dimock Glackens | |
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Robert Henri, Portrait of Edith Dimock Glackens, ca. 1902-1904, Sheldon Museum of Art
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Edith Dimock February 16, 1876 Hartford, Connecticut |
| Died | October 28, 1955 (aged 79) |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Art Students League, William Merritt Chase |
| Spouse(s) | William Glackens |
Edith Dimock (1876–1955) was an American painter. Her work was exhibited at the 1913 Armory Show in New York. She married fellow artist, William Glackens, but continued to use her maiden name when signing her works.
Edith Dimock was born February 16, 1876 in Hartford, Connecticut. Given the nickname of "Teed", she was the daughter of Ira Dimock, a silk merchant based in Connecticut, and older sister of Stanley, Harold Edwin and Florence Irene Dimock (1889-1962). Dimock developed an interest in art in her childhood and began her education in art in New York in her 20s against the wishes of her parents. On February 16, 1904 she married painter William Glackens in her family's Vanderbilt Hill mansion, originally built for Cornelius Vanderbilt.
Ira Dimock's house on Vanderbilt Hill, Hartford, Connecticut where Edith Dimock was raised and married (built in 1879, razed in 1920)
William Glackens, The Shoppers, 1907-1908, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia. The central figure is Edith Dimock.
As a wedding present, Robert Henri painted portraits of the bride and groom. Edith's portrait was started in 1902. In it, she was described as "still a demure socialite from Hartford" by author Bennard Perlman. Until they could find a larger place, they first lived in a one-room apartment in the Sherman Building in New York City. They then lived at 3 Washington Square North. Following the marriage, "she devoted her time and energies to her family." Their son Ira, born in 1907, was a writer who wrote two books about his father. In 1913 Dimock gave birth to their daughter, Lenna, an artist. Lenna and Edith were favored models for William Glackens. From 1911 to 1917, Dimock and her family spent the summers at Belport on Long Island, where her husband, William Glackens, painted beach scenes. Artists and good friends May Preston and James Moore Preston often spent the summers there and traveled with the Glackens to Europe.
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