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Birth
1867 (Williamsport, Pennsylvania)
Death
1933 (New York, New York)
Lived/Active
New York
Self portrait - Artist self-portrait
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Often Known For
urban genre and portrait painting, illustration
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New York Armory Show of 1913
San Francisco Panama-Pacific Exhibition 1915
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Luks was born on August 13, 1867 in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. Luks
received his first art instruction from his parents who pursued
painting as a hobby. At seventeen he entered the Pennsylvania Academy
of Fine Arts. Later he went to Düsseldorf where he lived with a distant
relative, a retired lion-tamer. He abandoned Düsseldorf for the more
stimulating spheres of London and Paris. When he returned to America he
worked as an artist for Philadelphia newspapers. In 1896 he was sent t (showing 500 of 10421 characters). |
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