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Glenn Harrington credits his dad, a New York City ironworker, for teaching him a thing or two about art. "He had an interest in art throughout his life, " Glenn recalls. "When we were kids, my dad regularly took us to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where we could see the original Velazquez and all of those pieces. He also had a lot of paintings sitting around the house, and I went with him when he painted some store windows. But he wasn't an artist per se. He really didn't have the opportunity to paint very much."
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When
he did paint, however, Frank Harrington was talented. In fact, his
portrait of president John F. Kennedy appeared in an exhibition
called Hard Hats in the Arts at the World Trade Center just after
the building first opened. Frank worked on the foundation of the
Twin Towers, and Glenn vividly recalls visiting eh construction
site with his dad and taking the day off of school in Long Island
to go into the city for the exhibition. That experience sparked
Glenn's artistic inclinations, and his parents responded with support.