Life on the press : the popular art and illustrations of George Benjamin Luks
George Benjamin Luks (1867-1933) is renowned for the oil paintings, watercolors, and pastel drawings he created as an acclaimed member of the artists' collective known as the Ashcan School. His professional development came, however, from his apprenticeship as a newspaper and magazine artist. Luks spent his early career drawing cartoons, spot illustrations, political caricatures, and comic strips for the New York World and other papers. These early portraits and stories of street urchins, peddlers, shopkeepers, and other ordinary New Yorkers would all be revisited in his later painting. He ach
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (xiii, 284 pages) : illustrations
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Preface
A Luks biography : the context of his graphic art
An illustrator comes of age
Life on the press : Philadelphia evening bulletin and New York world
The gilded age from the other side of the tracks : Hogan's alley
Politics and sarcasm : Sandburrs and the Verdict
Into the roaring twenties : Vanity fair and New Yorker
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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