Lot 21
  • 21

George Luks 1867-1933

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Description

  • George Luks
  • The Cabby
  • signed George Luks, l.r.
  • oil on canvas
  • 30 by 25 in.
  • (76.2 by 63.5 cm)

Provenance

Estate of the Artist [sold: Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, April 5, 1950, lot 68, illustrated (as New York Cabby)]
Milch Galleries, New York (acquired at the above sale)
Babcock Galleries, New York
Joseph Katz, Baltimore, Maryland
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York
Acquired from the above, 1959

Exhibited

New York, Kraushaar Galleries, Recent Paintings and Water Colors by George Luks, January 1922, no. 10 (as New York Cabby)
Cleveland, Ohio, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Twelfth Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Paintings, June-July 1932
New York, Frank K.M. Rehn Galleries, Paintings and Drawings by George Luks, March-April 1934, no. 8
(possibly) New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1937
New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, The Portrait in American Art, April-May 1959, no. 40
Manchester, Vermont, Southern Vermont Art Center, "The Eight," Fifty-Five Years Later, June-July 1963, no. 5
Brooklyn, New York, The Brooklyn Museum; Andover, Massachusetts, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, American Painting: Selections from the Collection of Daniel and Rita Fraad, June-November 1964, no. 47, p. 57, illustrated (as New York Cabby)
Fort Worth, Texas, Amon Carter Museum, American Paintings, Watercolors, and Drawings from the Collection of Rita and Daniel Fraad, May-July 1985, no. 41, pp. 86-88, illustrated in color

Literature

Sportsman, December 1933, illustrated in color on the cover
Selections from the Collection of Hirschl & Adler Galleries, vol. V, 1963-64, no. 32, illustrated
"Gallery Shows, Museum Exhibits," The New York Times, September 6, 1964, illustrated (detail)