Evening star., 1933-10-30
ARTIST FOUND DEAD.
WELL KNOWN HERE.
George B. Luks Was Winner
of CorCOran Art Gallery
Prize.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. October 30.-A heart
attack has ended the career of George
B. Luks, noted painter. He was found
dead in a doorway yesterday.
The attack came upon him while he
was observing the effect of the dawn
for a picture of an elevated structure.
He was &c years old.
Luks' canvases have hung in prac-
tically every important gallery in the
country and his work won many prizes.
He was also famous among his asSoci-
ates for his epicureanism. zest for life
and hatred for sham. In his earlier
days he had earned a living as a pro-
fessional foot ball player and prize
fighter
Native OF Pennsylvania.
He was born in Williamsport, Pa
Surviving are his widow, the former
Mercedes Carbonell. and two brothers
He received his art training in the
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
and in Dusseldorf. Germany; London
and Paris.
He was member of the National
Association of Portrait Painters and
the new Society of Artists. The Penn
sylvania Academy of Fine Arts award
ed him the Temple gold medal. He
received the Logan medal Of the Chi
cago Art Institute. the Hudnut water
color prize in New York and the Cor
coran Art Gallery prize in Washing
ton. D. c.
The funeral will take place here
Tuesday. and burial will be in the fam
lily plot in a Royerford- Pa, cemetery
In his youth Luks was amateur
boxer. wrestler and foot ball player
HIS acqualntanceS in sporting circles
were as numerous as his friends in art
and literature,
Known as "Lusty Luks."
A true Bohemian, IF always was TO
be found at beeksteak' dinners or other
he was given the name .'Lusty Luks''
A year ago he was asked to talk on
American art at the artists co-opera-
tive market. and astonished his audi
ence by saying:
I'm going to tell about this art
| racket, about the pish and blather
| called technique. I'm through painting
portraits Any fool can do that I'm
rare bird.
This country has been imposed upon
by French superior salesmanShip. 1t Is
the victim of cheap little lawyers who
become diplomats and financiers, who
let their wives buy pictures from deal
ers who perfume them with bombast
and saddle them with trash"
! His painting of The Blue Devils
Parading Up Fifth Avenue" was so
striking that the French government
sought to buy it for the Luxembourg
Gallery His portrait of Elihu Root
hangs in the State Department at
| WASHINGTON
Member of "The Eight"
Luks was one of eight painters who
| in 1908 formed a revolutionary group
| known as The Eight The others
were Robert Henri Arthur b. Davies,
Maurice PrendergaSt, William Glack-
ems, Everett Shinn. Ernest Lawson and
John Sloan.
| His paintings were virile. rejecting
his own joy of living. Once he ex-
pressed an ambition to paint ''110
Per Cent American" THE Dickens
| of the East Side" was an appellation
which James Huneker. the writer, ap-
piled to LukS, while Benjamin DeCaS-
seres referred to him as George the
Cherub, the old matter halter. the fell
low who to the end of his days will
| hurl at the egopompoSaS and snug
mugs who rule this world"
A truck driver once came to Luks
studio for a canvas the artist had
promised to paint for the Chicago Art
Institute. Luks, however, had forgot
ten the assignment. He told the truck