George Luks

George Luks studied art at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia and in 1889 in Germany at the Staatliche Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf. He also traveled to Paris and London to look at art. In 1894 he began a career as a newspaper illustrator with the Philadelphia Press. In Philadelphia Luks made friends with the artists William Glackens, Robert Henri, Everett Shinn, and John Sloan, all of who later became part of the group known as The Eight or Ashcan School.

By 1896 Luks had moved to New York to draw illustrations for the New York World. He exhibited with The Eight in 1908 and in the Armory Show in 1913. After teaching at the Art Students League from 1920 to 1924, he started the George Luks School of Painting in New York.

[Source: The Phillips Collection artist biographies]