George Luks

artiste américain

George Benjamin Luks, né le à Williamsport (Pennsylvanie), et mort à New York le , est un peintre américain moderniste[1],[2], rattaché à l'Ash Can School.

George Luks
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Biographie

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Luks a travaillé pour le journal de Joseph Pulitzer, le New York World[3],[4],[5],[6].

En février 1908, il expose aux Macbeth Galleries (Manhattan), avec sept autres peintres, retrouvant ses amis Robert Henri, William Glackens, John French Sloan, Everett Shinn, et auxquels se joignent Arthur Bowen Davies, Maurice Prendergast, et Ernest Lawson. La presse les surnomment The Eight[7].

Expositions

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  • 1904: National Arts Club (Luks, Glackens, Henri, Sloan, Davies, Prendergast)
  • 1908: The Macbeth Galleries exhibition of The Eight
  • 1913: The Armory Show (six Luks paintings were included)
  • 1937: New York Realists, the Whitney Museum of American Art
  • 1943: The Eight, Brooklyn Museum of Art
  • 1992: Painters of a New Century: The Eight and American Art, Brooklyn Museum
  • 1994: George Luks: The Watercolors Rediscovered, Canton Museum of Art
  • 1995: Metropolitan Lives: The Ashcan Artists and Their New York, National Museum of American Art
  • 1997: Owen Gallery, New York, 1997
  • 2000: City Life Around the Eight, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • 2007: Life's Pleasures: The Ashcan Artists' Brush with Leisure, 1895–1925, The New York Historical Society
  • 2009: The Eight and American Modernisms, Milwaukee Art Museum

Élèves

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Il eut pour élèves : Norman Raeben, Elsie Driggs, et John Alan Maxwell (en).

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Références

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  1. Biographical information for this entry is taken from Judith O'Toole, "George Luks: An Artistic Legacy" (1997), Judith O'Toole, "George Luks: Rogue, Raconteur, and Realist" (2009), and Robert L. Gambone, Life on the Press (2009).
  2. Hunter, pp. 33–35.
  3. George Luks: The "Other" Yellow Kid Artist, Hogan's Alley #13
  4. « George Luks »
  5. Glackens, p. 16.
  6. Craven, p. 428.
  7. (en) Sylvia Yount, « The Ashcan School, The Eight, and the New York Art World », The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 26 mai 2015.
  8. « the image of the OCTOPUS: six cartoons, 1882–1909 » [archive du ], sur National Humanities Center,  : « In January 1899, after years of orchestrated delay in beginning the New York City subway, the issue came to a head. On one side were Tammany Hall and the businessmen who monopolized the city’s street railways and who wanted no competition from a subway. On the other side was the public demanding improved and less crowded urban transit. When a contract was awarded to one of the companies with no bidding, the public outcry led to huge mass meetings throughout the city. Gov. Theodore Roosevelt settled the immediate dispute (contributing to the Republican leaders’ expelling him from state politics). »

Annexes

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Bibliographie

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  • Brown, Milton. American Painting from the Armory Show to the Depression. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1955.
  • Gambone, Robert L. Life on the Press: The Popular Art and Illustrations of George Benjamin Luks. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2009.
  • Glackens, Ira. William Glackens and the Ash Can School: The Emergence of Realism in American Art. New York: Crown, 1957.
  • Hughes, Robert. American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America. New York: Knopf, 1997.
  • Huneker, James Gibbons. Bedouins. New York: Scribners, 1920.
  • Hunter, Sam. Modern American Painting and Sculpture. New York: Dell, 1959.
  • Kennedy, Elizabeth (ed.) The Eight and American Modernisms. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009.
  • Loughery, John. "The Mysterious George Luks." Arts Magazine (December 1987), pp. 34–35.
  • O'Toole, Judith Hansen. "George Luks: An Artistic Legacy." New York City: Owen Gallery (unpaginated catalogue), 1997.
  • O'Toole, Judith Hansen. "George Luks: Rogue, Raconteur, and Realist" (pp. 91–108) in Elizabeth Kennedy (ed.). The Eight and American Modernisms. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009.
  • O'Toole, Judith Hansen. "George Luks: The Watercolors Rediscovered." Canton, OH: Canton Museum of Art (exhibition catalogue), 1994.
  • Perlman, Bennard B. Painters of the Ashcan School: The Immortal Eight. New York: Dover, 1979.

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