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George Luks
August 13.1866-October 29.1933,American painter and draughtsman. He lived as a child in the mining town of Shenandoah, PA, but moved to Philadelphia in 1883. The facts of his early career were later confused by the wild stories fabricated by him. After a short stint in vaudeville, he spent a year at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia. From 1885 he was in Europe, living most of the next decade in D?sseldorf, Munich, Paris and London, intermittently attending German and French art academies. In 1894 Luks became an artist-reporter for the Philadelphia Press, where he befriended Robert Henri, John Sloan, William J. Glackens and Everett Shinn.
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Painting ID:: 39104
Street Scene
mk140
1905
Oil on canvas
65.5x91.1cm
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Painting ID:: 39306
The Little Madonna
mk146
ca.1907
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Painting ID:: 39786
Street Scene
mk151
1905
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Painting ID:: 39790
The Amateurs
mk151
1899
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Painting ID:: 50558
Vista
mk212
1905
Oil on canvas
65.5x91.1cm
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George Luks
August 13.1866-October 29.1933,American painter and draughtsman. He lived as a child in the mining town of Shenandoah, PA, but moved to Philadelphia in 1883. The facts of his early career were later confused by the wild stories fabricated by him. After a short stint in vaudeville, he spent a year at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia. From 1885 he was in Europe, living most of the next decade in D?sseldorf, Munich, Paris and London, intermittently attending German and French art academies. In 1894 Luks became an artist-reporter for the Philadelphia Press, where he befriended Robert Henri, John Sloan, William J. Glackens and Everett Shinn.
. Related Artists to George Luks: | Henri Testelin | Nathaniel Dance | Eugne Joseph Verboeckhoven | william a.thornbery | SAVOLDO, Giovanni Girolamo |
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