George Benjamin Luks / Pennsylvania Coal Town / 1920s

George Benjamin Luks
Pennsylvania Coal Town
1920s
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Creator Name: Luks, George Benjamin
Creator Nationality: North American; American
Creator Role: Artist
Creator Dates/Places: 1867 - 1933
Gender: M
Creator Name-CRT: George Benjamin Luks
Title: Pennsylvania Coal Town
Title Type: Primary
Title: Mining Village
Title Type: alternate
View: Full View
Creation Start Date: 1920
Creation End Date: 1929
Creation Date: 1920s
Object Type: Drawings and Watercolors
Materials and Techniques: watercolor and gouache over graphite
Dimensions: Sheet: 35.5cm x 50.7cm
Inscriptions: signed, lower right, in red gouache: George luks ; VERSO, upper left, in graphite: Mining Village
AMICA Contributor: The Cleveland Museum of Art
Owner Location: Cleveland, Ohio, USA
ID Number: 1972.232
Credit Line: Bequest of Lucia McCurdy McBride
Rights: http://www.clemusart.com/museum/disclaim2.html
Context: Luks is best remembered as a member of the Ashcan School of social realists, but in the 1920s he produced a striking group of watercolors whose rich coloring recalls the work of European artists such as Henri Matisse (1869-1954) and André Derain (1880-1954).
AMICA ID: CMA_.1972.232
AMICA Library Year: 2000
Media Metadata Rights: Copyright, The Cleveland Museum of Art

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