Life on the press the popular art and illustrations of George Benjamin Luks /
George Benjamin Luks (1867-1933) is renowned for the oil paintings, watercolors, and pastel drawings he created as an acclaimed member of the artists' collective known as the Ashcan School. His professional development came, however, from his apprenticeship as a newspaper and magazine artist. L...
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| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
2009.
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| Online Access: | View fulltext via EzAccess |
| Summary: | George Benjamin Luks (1867-1933) is renowned for the oil paintings, watercolors, and pastel drawings he created as an acclaimed member of the artists' collective known as the Ashcan School. His professional development came, however, from his apprenticeship as a newspaper and magazine artist. Luks spent his early career drawing cartoons, spot illustrations, political caricatures, and comic strips for the New York World and other papers. These early portraits and stories of street urchins, peddlers, shopkeepers, and other ordinary New Yorkers would all be revisited in his later painting. He ach. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 284 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781604734799 1604734795 |