Holiday on the Hudson
c. 1912
George Luks
George Luks (American, 1866–1933)
American Painting and Sculpture
Holiday on the Hudson, c. 1912. George Luks (American, 1866–1933). Oil on canvas; framed: 96.5 x 111.5 x 6 cm (38 x 43 7/8 x 2 3/8 in.); unframed: 76.2 x 91.7 cm (30 x 36 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection 1933.2291 A sun-dappled scene of middle-class leisure, Holiday on the Hudson is an atypical work by Luks, who more often turned to gritty tenement subjects for inspiration. Throughout his career, the painter fashioned himself as a brash, profane, and hard-drinking antagonist to New York’s genteel art-world establishment. The museum purchased this work just four months before the artist was beaten to death in the wake of a speakeasy argument.
- Maker/Artist
- Luks, George Benjamin
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Framed: 96.5 x 111.5 x 6 cm (38 x 43 7/8 x 2 3/8 in.); Unframed: 76.2 x 91.7 cm (30 x 36 1/8 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: signed lower right: George Luks
- Departments
- American Painting and Sculpture
- Accession Number
- 1933.2291
- Credit Line
- Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection
- Exhibitions
- The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition, Exhibition of American Painting from 1860 Until Today, The Silver Jubilee Exhibition, The Eight, What Was the Armory Show?, George Luks 1866-1933: An Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings Dating from 1889 to 1931, Heritage and Horizon: American Painting 1776 - 1976, Shifting Shorelines: Art, Industry and Ecology of the Hudson River, New York, C.W. Kraushaar Art Galleries, An Important Collection of Paintings and Bronzes by Modern Masters of American and European Art (3 December-31 December 1921), cat. no. 6, illus., New York, C.W. Kraushaar Art Galleries,<em> Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings by George Luks</em> (8 January-27 January 1923); cat. no. 28, not illus., New York, Radio City assembled by The College Art Association, (May, 1933) Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, <em>Artists of the Philadelphia Press </em>(14 October-18 November 1945), pp. 5-15, cat. no. 24, not illus., includes essays by John Sloan and Everett Shin; catalogue in The Philadelphia Museum Bulletin (November, 1945), vol. XLI, no. 207. (16 June-16 July 1933), The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art (June, 1933), pp. 98-102, listed p. 101., Milwaukee, Milwaukee Art Institute, <em>Sports and Adventure in American Art</em> (15 February-30 March 1947), cat. no. 50, not illus., Palm Beach, Fla, <em>The Society of the Four Arts</em>, From Plymouth Rock to the Armory (9 February-5 March 1950), cat. no. 45, not illus., Vancouver, Vancouver Art Gallery, <em>Two Hundred Years of American Painting </em>(8 March-3 April 1955), cat. no. 38, illus., Oxford, OH, Miami University, <em>Sesquicentennial Celebration </em>(15 May-15 June 1959), San Diego, The Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, <em>Modern American Painting: 1915</em> (6 December 1962-6 January 1963), cat. no. 30, pp. 5-9, listed p. 18, illus. on back of catalogue., Utica, New York, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, <em>George Luks 1866-1933: An Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings Dating from 1889 to 1931</em> (1 April-20 May 1973); pp. 5-9, 14-19, cat. no. 83, listed p. 49, illus. p. 15., Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, <em>Heritage and Horizon: American Painting, 1776-1976 </em>(6 March-11 April 1976); traveled to Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts (5 May-13 June 1976); to Toledo, The Toledo Museum of Art (4 July-15 August 1976); to Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art (8 September-10 October 1976); cat. no. 37., Milwaukee, Milwaukee Art Museum, <em>Painters of a New Century: The Eight & American Art</em> (6 September-3 November 1991); traveled to Denver, The Denver Art Museum (7 December 1991-16 February 1992); to Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada (16 April-7 June 1992); to Brooklyn, The Brooklyn Museum (26 June-21 September 1992); cat. no. 82, listed p. 179, illus. p. 14.
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 208 American Gilded Age and Realism
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