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George Luks
1867 – 1933
George Luks was born in 1867 in Williamsport, PA. He studied
briefly at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the
Düsseldorf Academy before traveling to London and Paris. In
1894, he worked for the “Philadelphia Press” as an illustrator
and then in 1896, after covering the Cuban War, he moved to New
York where he worked for “The New York World.” There he began
to draw the comic strip “The Yellow Kid.” In 1908, a group
called “The Eight,” which included Luks, Robert Henri, John
Sloan, William Glackens, Maurice Prendergast, exhibited at the
Macbeth Gallery in New York. Luks taught at the Art Students
League from 1920 through 1924. He later conducted his own
classes in his own studio. On October 29, 1933 he was found
dead, apparently the casualty of a bar-room brawl.
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