藝術家George Benjamin LUKS (1867-1933) 生平簡歷

出生地: Williamsport, PA

死亡地点: NYC

地址: NYC

职业: Painter, teacher

教育: PAFA, Düsseldorf, Paris, London, all 1885-95.

展出: PAFA Ann., 1900-05, 1914-33 frequently (gold medal 1918); Corcoran Gal. biennials, 1908-32 (7 times, incl. 4th prize, 1916, and gold med., 1932); Armory Show, 1913; NYWCC, 1916 (prize); AIC, 1920 (med.), 1926 (med.); Locust, Phila., 1927 (gold); WMAA; "The Ashcan Artists and Their New York," NMAA, 1995.

会员: Por. P.; Am. PS; NYWCC; Boston AC.

工作: MMA; NOMA; Milwaukee A. Inst.; Detroit AI; CMA; Harrison Gal., Los Angeles; PMG; NYPL; Barnes Mus., Phila.; Neco Allen Hotel, Pottsville, Pa.; large collection at Munson-Williams-Proctor Inst., Ithaca, NY.

评论: Along with Robert Henri, he was an outspoken member of "The Eight," who first exhibited as a group at Macbeth Gal., NYC, in 1908. Luks met Henri, Glackens, Shinn, and Sloan while working as a newspaper artist in Philadelphia in the early 1890s. After moving to NYC, Luks looked to the everyday world of working class people in NYC for his subject matter, portraying--with a sense of immediacy and drama--the energy of busy, crowded streets, as well as the people themselves, and the raw physicality engendered in such sports as wrestling. After 1915, the artist focused more on rural themes, but during the 1920s he also painted scenes depiciting the harshness of life as a coal miner. Luks was one of the founders of the AAPS, which organized the 1913 Armory Show in NYC. He was an influential teacher at the ASL, not only for his methods but for his powerful personality. A loud, boisterous man who was always the life of the party, and who likened his art to that of Franz Hals, Luks was also known as a hard drinker. Positions: illus. staff, Philadelphia Press; Philadelphia Evening Bulletin; Spanish war correspondent in Cuba. Creator: comic strip, "The Yellow Kid," in New York World.

来源: WW31; Baigell, Dictionary; Mecklenburg, Zurier, and Snyder, Metropolitan Lives: the Ashcan Artists and their New York; Falk, Exh. Record Series.

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