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Exhibition of Recent

PAINTINGS & WATER COLORS

by

GEORGE LUKS

at the

C. W. Kraushaar Art Galleries

68o Fifth Avenue, '.N_ew Yor~

January 12th to 3 rst

1922

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2 Mike McTeague

3 The New Shoes

4 The Little Lady

5 Cyril

6 Beggar Girl

7 Paul V erlaine

8 Girl from ,Tinicus

9 The White Macaw

IO New York Cabby

II The Bread Woman

12 Breaker Boy

13 Carmine and Bleecker Streets [NOCTURNE]

I4 Study for a Portrait

I) Mrs. Cobey

WATER COLORS

I The Sailor

2 Sutton Place, New York City

3 The Soda Water Man

4 The Heckscher Building

5 Junk Shop, Morton Street

6 Washington and Greenwich Streets (NIGHT)

7 The Green Signal, Fifth A venue

8 The Candy Woman

9 Spring Street

IO East River off Sutton Place

II Josie,s Alley, Greenwich Village

I2 Pier 44, North River

I3 Noon Hour

I4 East Broadway [NOCTURNE]

I') Watts Street, New York City

C. W. KRAUSHAAR ART GALLERIES 68o FIFTH A VENUE, NEW YORK

PAINTINGS Whistler, La very, Fan tin,. Latour, Zuloaga, Legros, Israels, Courbet, Tack, Daumier, Beal, Monticelli, Le Sidaner, Sloan, Myer~, Sisley

and Luks

BRONZES Barye, Bourdelle, Mahonri Young

RARE ETCHINGS

Whistler, Legros, Bauer, Zorn, Muirhead Bone, Brangwyn

and Sir Seymour Haden

by

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In Exhibition at the

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NO lack of contr~st in ~b~ art ' galleries to g1ve a fll)IP to . the season at its full. In ; the Kraushaar Gallery is , the recent work of George !

Luks, a manly exhibition with an ; odd note of caprice in some of the ; oil paintings. Perhaps it is not ca- ; price but style to make at the last . moment a sketch from a highly de- ' vel oped picture, to carry it through \ to the very. end of technical resource : and then pretend it has just beeu ~ begun. One or two things are like ~ that; others-the " New York Cab- i by," " The Bread vVoman," Czecho- , slovak "Mary ''-are definite prom- : ises of ·rich beauty when tirae has . had its chance with them. But the ! two masterpieces in the room are · ;, Mike McTeague,'' a baby dipped ' ln sunlight, all orang·e and red and : warm, fair flesh color, and '• '.rhe : White Macaw," a girl's head of be- ' wildeti:ng beauty seen dimly in the slladov of a larg·e ·hat, the great : sweeping pattern described by the j hat, the white fichu, the white J

arms, the creamy throat, as splendid j a piece of design as one need look , for, the palette set for moonlil~·ht, : pallid and exquisite. One may ask~ one's self if the pale color brushed . lig·htly over a dark ground will age 1 properly, but it is fairly safe to as- · sume that it will since Luks is re- 1 sponsjble for i·t-incorruptil:ile crafts- i man that he is; and in any case he l could not have got this particular 1

kind of exquisiteness in any other i way. i

The watercolors are as good as the : oils, a person prejudiced in favor of · the clean medium would say even : better than the oils by virtue of a true spontaneity which has not ex- : eluded force. It is something to have i got such for~~e with pure clear wash. i "Night; Washington and Green­wich Street'' is a powerful design !

in the color. I