Vincent Glinsky was born in Russia on December 18,1895 and emigrated to America just before World War I, settling in Syracuse, NY, with his family.
10 Facts About Vincent Glinsky
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In 1927 Vincent Glinsky went to live in Europe for approximately two years, settling first in Rome.
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Vincent Glinsky later moved to Paris, where he was acknowledged as part of L'Ecole de Paris, a group of artists which included sculptors such as Calder, Giacometti, and Lifschitz, and painters such as Picasso, Dufy, and Roualt.
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In Paris Vincent Glinsky had a one-man show at the Galerie Zak in February 1929, followed by two group shows in Paris, one at Galerie Zak in 1929, and the other at Le Salon des Tuileries in 1930.
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On his return to New York, Vincent Glinsky began to exhibit widely.
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In 1937 Vincent Glinsky joined with 56 other artists as a Founding Member of the Sculptors Guild in New York.
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Vincent Glinsky won an Arts and Letters Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1945, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts awarded him the 1948 Herbert M Howe Memorial Prize.
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Vincent Glinsky's colleagues moved to honor his memory: The Sculptors Guild dedicated the 1976 Lever House exhibit to his memory, and the Audubon Artists named a yearly award in his honor.
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Vincent Glinsky's papers are held at Syracuse University and the Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Art.
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Vincent Glinsky was married to the American sculptor Cleo Hartwig.