Artist: George Luks (1866 - 1933)
Nationality: American
Movement: Ashcan School
Media: Painting
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Biography:
American painter, George Luks traveled for a decade in Europe before returning to the United States in 1894. He worked as an illustrator for the Philadelphia Press and was introduced to Robert Henri by some of his colleagues. Luks moved to New York in 1896 to devote himself to painting. He joined The Eight and the Ashcan School. He had an unusual personality and claimed to live a bohemian lifestyle. Luks worked as a teacher at the Art Students League for several years before opening his own school.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (60)
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George Luks Innocence oil on canvas circa 1916
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Pedro, George Benjamin Luks (United States, Pennsylvania, Williamsport, 1867 - 1933) , early 1920s, Oil on canvas
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George Benjamin Luks, American, 1866-1933 The Wrestlers 1905 Oil on canvas 122.87 x 168.59 cm
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Czechoslovakian Army Entering Vladivostok, Siberia, in 1918, George Benjamin Luks (United States, Pennsylvania, Williamsport, 1867 - 1933) , 1918, Oil on canvas
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Girl in Checkered Dress, George Benjamin Luks (United States, Pennsylvania, Williamsport, 1867 - 1933) , circa 1920-1924, Watercolor and graphite
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Jack Dempsey in Training, George Benjamin Luks (United States, Pennsylvania, Williamsport, 1867 - 1933) , circa 1920-1924, Watercolor on brown paper
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George Luks - Mercedes c. 1927 oil on canvas Swope Art Museum American
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George Luks - Subway n.d. pastel The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art American
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George Benjamin Luks - The Bersaglieri 1918 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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George Benjamin Luks - The Miner 1925 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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George Benjamin Luks - Three Top Sergeants 1925 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art American
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George Luks - A Portrait c. 1904 charcoal on paper Hirshhorn Museum American
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George Benjamin Luks - In the Steerage 1900 oil on canvas North Carolina Museum of Art American
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George Luks - Boy with Dice c. 1923-24 oil on canvas Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester American
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George Benjamin Luks - Pedro early 1920's oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art American
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George Luks - London Bus Driver 1889 oil on canvas Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester American
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George Luks - Girl in Green c. 1925-1929 oil on canvas Hirshhorn Museum American
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George Benjamin Luks - Holiday on the Hudson c. 1912 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art American
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George Luks - Market Place n.d. crayon on paper Hirshhorn Museum American
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George Benjamin Luks, American, 1866-1933 A Clown 1929 Oil on canvas 61.28 x 50.8 cm
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George Benjamin Luks, American, 1866-1933 The Joy of Living 1921 or earlier Oil on canvas
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George Benjamin Luks, American, 1866-1933 Jenny about 1925 Oil on canvas 91.44 x 63.5 cm
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George Benjamin Luks, American, 1866-1933 Noontime, St. Botolph Street, Boston about 1923 Oil on canvas
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George Benjamin Luks, American, 1866-1933 King"s Chapel, Boston about 1923 Oil on canvas 92.39 x
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George Benjamin Luks, American, 1866-1933 View of Beacon Street from Boston Common about 1923 Oil
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George Luks - Sailboat at Night (Maine) 1922 oil on canvas Hirshhorn Museum American
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George Luks - Dunraven Bog, Nova Scotia 1919 oil on canvas Hirshhorn Museum American
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George Luks - Great Waves (Coast of Maine) 1922 oil on wood Hirshhorn Museum American
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George Benjamin Luks - Czechoslovakian Army Entering Vladivostok, Siberia, in 1918 1918 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art American
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Charles Green Shaw Geometric Abstraction oil on canvas ca. 1937
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Charles Green Shaw Abstract Construction oil on wood on plywood panel ca. 1937
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George Romney George, First Marquis of Townshend oil on canvas 1792
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A Young Knight of the Garter, Possibly George Augustus (1683-1760), Later George II of Great
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George B. Shaw George Heriote 19th - 20th century
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Benjamin West - George III 1783 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art American
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George Biddle George Santayana (profile) Lithograph 1952
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Charles Green Shaw Untitled (Abstract), fromThe American Abstract Artists Portfolio: Exhibition April 3-17, 1937 black and white offset lithograph 1937
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Presentation Basting Spoon with Badge of King George III, George Smith IV, England, London, recorded 1799 - 1812  (Artist), 1799, Silver
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Gregor Duncan Portrait Sketch of George T. Eggleston red chalk 1935
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James McNeill Whistler - George W. Vanderbilt 1897-1903 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Jean-Antoine Houdon - George Washington 1786-1793 plaster National Gallery of Art French
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Gilbert Stuart - George Washington 1796 oil on canvas Mead Art Museum, Amherst College American
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Charles Willson Peale - George Washington 1787 oil on canvas Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts American
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William Hogarth - George Arnold 1738-1740 oil on canvas The Fitzwilliam Museum British
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Jean-Antoine Houdon - George Washington c. 1786 plaster bust Boston Athenaeum
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Gilbert Stuart - George Pollock 1793-1794 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Sir Henry Raeburn - Mrs. George Hill c. 1790-1800 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art British
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Gilbert Stuart - George Washington c. 1803-1805 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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John Singer Sargent - George McCulloch 1901 oil on canvas Boston Athenaeum American
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Charles Willson Peale - George Washington c. 1779-81 oil on canvas The Metropolitan Museum of Art American
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William Holman Hunt - Mrs. George Waugh 1868 oil on fabric Cleveland Museum of Art British
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John F. Kensett - Lake George 1869 oil on canvas The Metropolitan Museum of Art American
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Gilbert Stuart - George Washington before 1801 oil on canvas The Fitzwilliam Museum American
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Edward Savage - George Washington c. 1796 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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John Neagle - George Dodd 1852 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Rembrandt Peale - George Washington 1795 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art American
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Francis Hayman - George Dance c. 1750 oil on canvas The Fitzwilliam Museum British
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Gilbert Stuart - George Washington after 1796 oil on canvas Corcoran Gallery of Art American
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Gilbert Stuart - George Washington c. 1821 oil on wood National Gallery of Art American
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Allan Ramsay - King George III 1713-84 oil on canvas The Mint Museums English

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (7)
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Metropolitan Museum of Art: City Life: Around the Eight
This installation features a selection of about 25 drawings and small paintings from the Museum's collection by William Glackens, Ernest Lawson, George Luks, Everett Shinn, and John Sloan (all members of the Eight) and their contemporary Geo...
Addison Gallery of American Art: Inside and Out: Scenes of American Life from the Addison Collection
These genre works, ranging from formal family portraits, to informal scenes of workers in the landscape, to popular prints produced for publications and mass distribution, represent artists such as Eastman Johnson, Winslow Homer, Enoch W...
Addison Gallery of American Art: Parallel Perspectives: Early Twentieth Century American Art
Painting, sculpture, and works on paper by artists such as George Inness, Ralph Blakekock, George Bellows, Patrick Henry Bruce, Arthur B. Davies, Stuart Davis, Charles Demuth, Marsden Hartley, and Georgia O’Keeffe present the multiple voices of Am...
Gibbes Museum of Art: Painters of American Life: The Eight AND The American Scene on Paper: Prints and Drawings from the Schoen
Painters of American Life: The Eight In 1908, eight American artists organized an exhibition at Macbeth Galleries in New York that became the talk of the town. Arthur B. Davies, William Glackens, Robert Henri, Ernest Lawson, George Luks, ...
Columbia Museum of Art: Edward Hopper and Urban Realism
Drawn entirely from the Whitney Museum of American Art’s preeminent collection, this exhibition presents the work of Hopper alongside paintings by his peers – those artists who documented and explored the many faces of life in the changing urban e...
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts: Pride in Place: Landscapes by the Eight in Southern Collections
Early in the twentieth century, Macbeth Gallery in New York City was one of the few commercial venues for the exhibition of contemporary American art. Most opportunities for public access to artists' works were obtained through the exhibitio...
Terra Museum of American Art: The People Work: American Perspectives 1840-1940
"By exploring diverse representations from the Terra Foundation for the Arts collection and several key works on loan, The People Work examines a variety of human activities investigating labor. The exhibition questions common assumptions and atti...

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