George Luks

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Erisava Staff 8h ago

Czechoslovakian Army Entering Vladivostok, Siberia, in 1918 by George Luks, 1918

Czechoslovakian Army Entering Vladivostok, Siberia, in 1918

Los Angeles County Museum of Art · wikidata.org

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This shows Czech Legion troops marching into Vladivostok in 1918, deep in the chaos of the Russian Civil War. Luks was usually known for gritty city scenes, not history painting on this scale.

Erisava Staff Jul 24

Pedro by George Luks, 1920

Pedro

Los Angeles County Museum of Art · wikidata.org

Public domain

He'd been a newspaper cartoonist and a barroom brawler who liked to claim he'd once boxed under a made-up name. He ran with the painters who got called the Ashcan School — supposedly as an insult — for picking ordinary city people over polite subjects.