George Luks: The Watercolors
Rediscovered
by Judith Hansen O'Toole
Exhibition Checklist
-
- CITY SCENES/ASH CAN
-
- The Harlem River, 1915
- Pastel and watercolor on paper, 13 3/4 x 14 7/8 inches
- Signed lower right: George Luks
- Collection of Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio,
Gift of Ferdinand Howald.
- Venues: all three
-
- Ice Wagon, 1920
- Watercolor on paper, 9 1/2 x 13 1/4 inches
- Signed lower left: George Luks
- Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska,
Lincoln, Nebraska, 1945, F.M. Hall Collection, H-255.
- Venues: all three
-
- The Clinic, 1920
- Sepia wash on paper, 14 3/8 x 19 1/4 inches
- Signed lower left: George Luks, 1920
- Collection of Grey Art Gallery & Study Center, New
York University Art Collection, New York City, New York, Gift of Arthur
G. Altschul.
- Venues: all three
-
- David Parrish: Interior Of A Tavern, circa 1922
- Watercolor and pencil on paper, 20 x 14 inches
- Signed lower right: George Luks
- Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
City, New York, Arthur Hoppock Hearn Fund, 1955.
- Venues: The Canton Museum of Art and Westmoreland Museum
of Art
-
- Soda Water Man, circa 1922
- Watercolor on paper, 4 x 6 inches
- Signed upper left: George Luks
- Collection of Mr. and Mrs. George A. Huhn.
- Venues: all three
-
- Dock Scene, circa 1923
- Watercolor on paper, 14 1/2 x 19 1/2 inches
- Signed lower left: George Luks
- Collection of the New Britain Museum of American Art,
Harriet Russell Stanley Fund, New Britain, Connecticut.
- Venues: all three
-
- Old Man, 1928
- Watercolor on paper, 9-1/2 x 7-1/2 inches
- Signed lower left: George Luks
- Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Luks.
- Venues: all three
-
- The One-Armed Lunch
- Watercolor on paper, 19 1/2 x 13 7/8 inches
- Signed lower left: George Luks
- Collection of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, Massachusetts,
Bequest of John T. Spaulding, 48.818.
- Venues: all three
-
-
- CITY SCENES/LEISURE
-
- High Bridge Park, circa 1912
- Watercolor on paper, 16 1/2 x 19 1/2 inches
- Signed lower left: George Luks
- Collection of Westmoreland Museum of Art, Greensburg,
Pennsylvania, Gift of Dr. Walter Read Hovey.
- Venues: all three
-
- Playing Soldiers, 1915
- Pastel and watercolor on paper, 13 1/2 x 14 3/8 inches
- Signed lower right: George Luks
- Collection of Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio,
Gift of Ferdinand Howald.
- Venues: all three
-
- Gossip, 1915
- Pastel and watercolor on paper, 13 3/8 x 14 3/4 inches
- Signed lower left: George Luks
- Collection of Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio,
Gift of Ferdinand Howald.
- Venues: all three
-
- River Boats, circa 1915
- Watercolor on paper, 14 x 19 inches
- Signed lower right: George Luks
- Private Collection.
- Venues: All three
-
- A Day at the Zoo
- Watercolor on paper, 10 x 7 3/4 inches
- Signed upper right: George Luks
- Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Sanford I. Feld.
- Venues: all three
-
- John Butler Yeats at Petitpas
- Watercolor on paper, 11 1/8 x 14 1/2 inches
- Signed lower right: George Luks
- Collection of IBM Corporation, Armonk, New York
- Consigned to Sothebys, Spring of 1995.
- Venue: The Canton Museum of Art
-
-
- FISHING/NOVA SCOTIA SCENES
-
- Fishing Village, 1919
- Watercolor on paper, 9 x 13 inches
- Unsigned
- Collection of Mr. and Mrs. George A. Huhn.
- Venues: all three
-
- Guide Fishing, 1919
- Watercolor on paper, 13 3/4 x 19 5/8 inches
- Signed lower right: George Luks
- Collection of Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware,
Gift of Titus C. Geesey.
- Venues: all three
-
- The Screecher, Lake Rossignol, Nova Scotia, 1919
- Watercolor on paper, 8 5/16 x 9 3/16 inches
- Unsigned
- Collection of Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Museum
of Art, Utica, New York.
- Venue: The Columbus Museum of Art
-
- Fishing, Nova Scotia, 1919
- Watercolor on paper, 5 x 8 inches
- Signed lower left: George Luks
- Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Luks.
- Venues: all three
-
- The Brook, circa 1920
- Watercolor and pencil on paper, 14 x 20 inches
- Signed lower right: George Luks
- Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
City, New York, The Lesley and Emma Sheafer Collection, Bequest of Emma
A. Sheafer, 1973.
- Venues: The Canton Museum of Art and Westmoreland Museum
of Art
-
- House By The Edge Of The Sea, circa 1930
- Watercolor on paper, 7 1/8 x 9 3/4 inches
- Signed lower right: George Luks
- Collection of Steven Tatti,
- Courtesy of Pensler Galleries, Washington, D.C.
- Venues: all three
-
- Boat Landing
- Watercolor on paper, 7 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches
- Unsigned; inscribed in pencil on verso: Boat Landing
- On loan from Mr. Vincent Smith-Durham, Courtesy of Schwarz
Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- Venues: all three
-
- Fisherman and Boulders
- Watercolor and tempera on paper, 14 x 20 inches
- Signed lower center: George Luks
- Private Collection, Courtesy of Keny Galleries, Columbus,
Ohio.
- Venues: all three
-
- The Strike
- Watercolor on paper, 13 1/2 x 19 inches
- Signed lower right: George Luks
- Collection of Reading Public Museum, Reading, Pennsylvania.
- Venues: all three
-
-
- POTTSVILLE/COAL SCENES
-
- Daughter of the Mines, 1923
- Watercolor on paper, 14 1/8 x 20 1/16 inches
- Signed lower right: George Luks
- Collection of Munson- Williams- Proctor Institute, Museum
of Art, Utica, New York, Edward W. Root Bequest.
- Venue: Westmoreland Museum of Art
-
- Village of St. Clair, circa 1925
- Watercolor on paper, 14 x 20 inches
- Signed lower left: George Luks
- Private Collection, Courtesy of Keny Galleries, Columbus,
Ohio.
- Venues: all three
-
- The Coal Miner, circa 1925
- Watercolor on paper, 19 1/4 X 13 1/4 inches
- Signed lower right: George Luks
- Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Luks.
- Venues: all three
-
- Miners' Shacks, Pottsville, 1927
- Watercolor on paper, 14 1/8 x 20 1/16 inches
- Signed bottom right: George Luks
- Collection of Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Museum
of Art, Utica, New York, Edward W. Root Bequest.
- Venue: The Canton Museum of Art
-
- Pennsylvania Coal Town, 1920s
- Watercolor on wove paper, 14 1/2 x 20 1/2 inches
- Signed lower right: George Luks
- Collection of Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio,
1994
- Bequest of Lucia McCurdy McBride,17.232
- Venues: The Canton Museum of Art and Columbus Museum
of Art
-
- Untitled (City on River)
- Watercolor on paper, 22 1/2 x 28 inches
- Signed Lower right: George Luks
- Collection of New Britain Museum of American Art, New
Britain, Connecticut, Gift of Olga H. Knoepke.
- Venues: all three
-
-
- LANDSCAPES/BERKSHIRE AND OTHERS
-
- Woman and Turkey, 1924
- Watercolor on paper, 19 7/8 x 13 3/4 inches
- Signed Lower right: George Luks
- Collection of Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
City, New York.
- Venues: all three
-
- Old Gristmill, The Berkshires,
circa 1925
- Watercolor on paper, 14 x 20 inches
- Signed lower right: George Luks
- Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
City, New York, The Lesley and Emma Sheafer Collection, Bequest of Emma
A. Sheafer, 1973.
- Venues: The Canton Museum of Art and Westmoreland Museum
of Art
-
- Railroad Crossing, The Berkshires, circa 1925
- Watercolor and pencil on paper, 13 7/8 x 19 7/8 inches
- Signed lower right: George Luks
- Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
City, New York, The Lesley and Emma Sheafer Collection, Bequest of Emma
A. Sheafer, 1973.
- Venues: The Canton Museum of Art and Westmoreland Museum
of Art
-
- Woman in the Field, circa 1930
- Watercolor on paper, 19 1/2 x 13 1/8 inches
- Signed lower Left: George Luks
- Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Luks.
- Venues: all three
-
- Landscape With Pool, Montauk, Long Island, circa 1930
- Watercolor on paper, 14 x 20 inches
- Signed lower center: George Luks
- Collection of Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis,
Indiana, Mary Milliken Fund.
- Venues: The Canton Museum of Art and Westmoreland Museum
of Art
-
- Red Barn, circa 1930
- Watercolor on paper, 13 3/4 x 19 1/2 inches
- Signed lower right: George Luks
- Collection of Palmer Museum of Art, The Pennsylvania
State University, University Park, Pennsylvania.
- Venues: all three
-
- Wooded Landscape With Pond, circa 1925 - 31
- Watercolor on paper, 14 3/4 x 19 3/4 inches
- Signed lower left: George Luks
- Collection of Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Gift of Donald and Willi Holden in Memory of
Rie Yarnall.
- Venues: all three
-
- My House, Berkshire Hills, circa 1931
- Watercolor and tempera on paper, 14 x 20 inches
- Signed lower right: George Luks; titled on reverse
- Collection of The Canton Museum of Art, Canton, Ohio,
Margretta Bockius Wilson Fund.
- Venues: all three
-
- Sunset
- Watercolor on paper, 23 1/2 x 27 1/2 inches
- Signed lower right: George Luks
- Collection of New Britain Museum of American Art, New
Britain, Connecticut, Gift of Olga H. Knoepke.
- Venues: all three
-
- Corner of Studio (Looking Outside)
- Watercolor on paper, 22 1/2 x 28 1/2 inches
- Signed lower right: George Luks
- Collection of New Britain Museum of American Art, New
Britain, Connecticut, Gift of Olga H. Knoepke.
- Venues: all three