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Jacob Glushakow (1914-2000) painted the everyday of Baltimore: the people, the neighborhoods, the harbor, the markets, and perhaps most significantly, the vanishing urban landscape of the city. The first child of Russian Jewish immigrants, Esther and Abraham Glashakow, Jacob entered the world at sea on the ship Bradenburg traveling from Bremen, Germany to Philadelphia. The family, after fleeing the beginning of World War I, settled in East Baltimore.
Jacob graduated from City College in 1933, attended the Maryland Institute of Art, and from 1933 to 1936 studied at the Art Students League in New York City. Until the end of his life, he sketched and painted the city he loved, creating more than 1,000 works. His paintings are in several museum collections, including the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Phillips Collection, and the Metropolitan Museum [of] Art. His paintings and drawings, given by his family and acquired in 2014, now form the Jacob Glushakow Collection at the Maryland Historical Society. |