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Joseph Glasco (1925–1996) was an American abstract expressionist painter, draftsman and sculptor who worked primarily in Galveston Texas and New York City. Glasco was born in Pauls Valley, Oklahoma in 1925, and grew up in Tyler, Texas. Glasco began his studies at the University of Texas at Austin, but was soon drafted into the army during World War II. Following the war he continued his studies at the Jeppson Art Institute in Los Angeles and at the School of Painting and Sculpture in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. In 1949 he moved to New York and attended the Arts Student League of New York where he formed a friendship with Alfonso Ossorio who introduced him to other notable artists such as Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning. In 1972 he settled in Galveston, Texas, and he maintained a studio both there and in New York. Glasco died in 1996.
