Friday 9 November 2012

Ashcan School - George Luks part 2

George Luks by Robert Henri 1902 
oil on canvas 80.9 x 66 cm

George Benjamin Luks (1867-1933) was an American realist artist and illustrator. His vigorously painted genre paintings of urban subjects are examples of the Ashcan School in American art.

For biographical notes on Luks, and for earlier works, see part 1.

This is part 2 of a 4-part post on the works of George Luks:


1912 The Dominican 
oil on canvas 142.2 x 124.5 cm

1912-13 Winter - High Bridge Park 
oil on canvas 55.9 x 86.4 cm

c1912 Holiday on the Hudson 
oil on canvas 97 x 112 cm

1914 Telling Fortunes 
oil on canvas 51 x 41 cm

c1914-28 Bleecker Street Kid 
oil on canvas 39 x 31 cm

1915 Jack and Russell Burke 
oil on canvas

c1915 Bleeker and Carmine Streets 
oil on canvas 63.5 x 76.2 cm

c1915 Madison Square 
oil on panel 81.3 x 111.8 cm

c1915 The Green Tie 
oil on canvas 76.2 x 63.5 cm

c1915 Upper Manhattan 
oil on canvas 40.6 x 52.1 cm

1916 Brooklyn Bridge 
oil on canvas 36.6 x 48.3 cm

1916 Hitch Team 
oil on canvas 99.1 x 113.7 cm

c1916 Child with Wagon 
oil on canvas 50.8 x 41.9 cm

1917 New Year's Shooter 
oil on canvas 77 x 64.5 cm

c1917 Portrait of a Young Girl ( Antoinette Kraushaar ) 
oil on canvas 152.7 x 101.7 cm

1918 Armistice Night 
oil on canvas 94 x 174.6 cm

1918 Blue Devils on Fifth Avenue 
oil on canvas 98 x 113 cm

1918 Knitting for the Soldiers, High Bridge Park 
oil on canvas 76.7 x 91.8 cm

1918 The Bersaglieri 
oil on canvas 102 x 152 cm

1919 Boulders on a Riverbank 
watercolour and gouache on paper 38.1 x 48.3 cm

1919 Child with a Toy 
oil on canvas 68.6 x 63.5 cm

1919 Dunraven Bog, Nova Scotia 
oil on canvas 63.7 x 76.5 cm

1919 Nova Scotia Guides, Lake Rossignol  
oil on canvas 64 x 76 cm

1919 Otis Skinner as Col. Philippe Bridau 
oil on canvas 132.1 x 111.8 cm

1919 The Brook, Nova Scotia 
pencil and watercolour on paper 35.6 x 50.8 cm

1919 The Eddy 
watercolour 35.6 x 50.8 cm

1920 Flyweight Champion of Jumel Place 
oil on canvas 61.6 x 46.4 cm

1920 Pedro 
oil on canvas

c1920-23 Young Boy 
oil on canvas 40.6 x 30.5 cm

c1920 Fifth Avenue, New York 
oil on board 30.5 x 34.9 cm

c1920 Fishermen 
oil on wood 32.4 x 40.6 cm

c1920 Little Girl in a Top Hat 
oil on canvas 50.8 x 40.6 cm

c1920 Society Girl 
oil on canvas 89.5 x 74.4 cm

c1920 Untitled ( Group of Figures ) 
carbon pencil on paper 24 x 19.2 cm

c1920s Pennsylvania Coal Town 
watercolour and gouache

1921 The Cabby 
oil on canvas 76.2 x 63.5 cm

c1921 Two Seated Figures 
conté crayon on paper 24.1 x 19.1 cm

1922 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston 
oil on canvas 63.5 x 76.2 cm

1922 Fisherman, Cape Elizabeth, Maine 
oil on canvas 40.6  x 50.8 cm

1922 Great Waves ( Coast Of Maine ) 
oil on wood 61 x 97 cm

1922 Hannaford's Cove 
oil on canvas 40.6 x 55.9 cm

1922 Spring Morning, Houston and Division Streets, New York 
oil on canvas 40.6 x 50.8 cm

1922 St. Botolph Street 
oil on canvas 76.2 x 63.5 cm

2 comments:

  1. very nice post, thanks to share an excellent collection of canvas art.
    canvas art painting

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  2. Enjoyed this portfolio. Well done; good selection of varied images

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