Recent paintings & water colors by G. Luks. · the recent work of George ! Luks, a manly exhibition...
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Exhibition of Recent
PAINTINGS & WATER COLORS
by
GEORGE LUKS
at the
C. W. Kraushaar Art Galleries
68o Fifth Avenue, '.N_ew Yor~
January 12th to 3 rst
1922
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2 Mike McTeague
3 The New Shoes
4 The Little Lady
5 Cyril
6 Beggar Girl
7 Paul V erlaine
8 Girl from ,Tinicus
9 The White Macaw
IO New York Cabby
II The Bread Woman
12 Breaker Boy
13 Carmine and Bleecker Streets [NOCTURNE]
I4 Study for a Portrait
I) Mrs. Cobey
WATER COLORS
I The Sailor
2 Sutton Place, New York City
3 The Soda Water Man
4 The Heckscher Building
5 Junk Shop, Morton Street
6 Washington and Greenwich Streets (NIGHT)
7 The Green Signal, Fifth A venue
8 The Candy Woman
9 Spring Street
IO East River off Sutton Place
II Josie,s Alley, Greenwich Village
I2 Pier 44, North River
I3 Noon Hour
I4 East Broadway [NOCTURNE]
I') Watts Street, New York City
C. W. KRAUSHAAR ART GALLERIES 68o FIFTH A VENUE, NEW YORK
PAINTINGS Whistler, La very, Fan tin,. Latour, Zuloaga, Legros, Israels, Courbet, Tack, Daumier, Beal, Monticelli, Le Sidaner, Sloan, Myer~, Sisley
and Luks
BRONZES Barye, Bourdelle, Mahonri Young
RARE ETCHINGS
Whistler, Legros, Bauer, Zorn, Muirhead Bone, Brangwyn
and Sir Seymour Haden
by
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In Exhibition at the
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NO lack of contr~st in ~b~ art ' galleries to g1ve a fll)IP to . the season at its full. In ; the Kraushaar Gallery is , the recent work of George !
Luks, a manly exhibition with an ; odd note of caprice in some of the ; oil paintings. Perhaps it is not ca- ; price but style to make at the last . moment a sketch from a highly de- ' vel oped picture, to carry it through \ to the very. end of technical resource : and then pretend it has just beeu ~ begun. One or two things are like ~ that; others-the " New York Cab- i by," " The Bread vVoman," Czecho- , slovak "Mary ''-are definite prom- : ises of ·rich beauty when tirae has . had its chance with them. But the ! two masterpieces in the room are · ;, Mike McTeague,'' a baby dipped ' ln sunlight, all orang·e and red and : warm, fair flesh color, and '• '.rhe : White Macaw," a girl's head of be- ' wildeti:ng beauty seen dimly in the slladov of a larg·e ·hat, the great : sweeping pattern described by the j hat, the white fichu, the white J
arms, the creamy throat, as splendid j a piece of design as one need look , for, the palette set for moonlil~·ht, : pallid and exquisite. One may ask~ one's self if the pale color brushed . lig·htly over a dark ground will age 1 properly, but it is fairly safe to as- · sume that it will since Luks is re- 1 sponsjble for i·t-incorruptil:ile crafts- i man that he is; and in any case he l could not have got this particular 1
kind of exquisiteness in any other i way. i
The watercolors are as good as the : oils, a person prejudiced in favor of · the clean medium would say even : better than the oils by virtue of a true spontaneity which has not ex- : eluded force. It is something to have i got such for~~e with pure clear wash. i "Night; Washington and Greenwich Street'' is a powerful design !
in the color. I