Art Institute of Chicago

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George Benjamin Luks · 1901

Provenance

Ownership history

C. W. Kraushaar Art Galleries, New York; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1941.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

IN, South Bend Art Association, American Painting in the Manner of the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, Feb. 10–Mar. 31, 1948, cat. 38.
Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Paintings by Eleven American Pioneers of the Twentieth Century, Oct. 13–Nov. 8, 1955, cat. 18.
WI, Madison Art Association, Exhibition of Traditional Paintings from the Art Institute, Mar. 1956, no cat.
New York, Jewish Museum, The Lower East Side: Portal to American Life, Sept. 21–Nov. 6, 1966; Washington DC, Smithsonian Institution, Dec. 16, 1966–Jan. 18, 1967.
Peoria, IL, Lakeview Center for the Arts and Sciences, The 12345678 (Gamble Memorial Exhibition), Sept. 12–Nov. 9, 1967, cat. 32.
Utica, NY, Munson–Williams–Proctor Institute, George Luks, 1866–1933, Apr. 1–May 20, 1973, cat. 2.
Columbus Museum of Art, Visions of America: Urban Realism 1900–1945, Jan. 7–Mar. 3, 1996; Mexico City, Museo de Arte Moderno, Apr. 11–June 16, 1996; Youngstown, OH, Butler Institute of American Art, July 13–Aug. 18, 1996.
Shanghai Museum, Pathways to Modernism: American Art, 1865–1945, Sept. 28, 2018–Jan. 6, 2019, cat. 38.

Literature

James Murray Haddow, American Painting in the Manner of the Late Ninteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, exh. cat. (South Bend Art Association, 1948), n.p., cat. 38.
Yang Zhigang, ed., Pathways to Modernism: American Art, 1865–1945, exh. cat. (Shanghai Book and Painting Press, 2018), cat. 38.

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