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Encyclopedia > George Benjamin Luks

George Benjamin Luks (1867 - 1933) was a American portrait and genre painter. He was, signficantly, a member of The Eight. One of his best-known works is The Spielers.


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George Luks was born in Williamsport, Pa., on Aug. 13, 1867.
Luks was fascinated with the characters and environment of the Lower East Side and consciously attempted to portray these with the explicitness and vitality of Hals.
Luks, always lusty and belligerent, was apparently killed as the result of a tavern fight on Oct. 29, 1933, dying in New York on the streets which he had immortalized on many canvasses.
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