George Benjamin Luks (1867-1933) is renowned for the oil paintings, watercolors, and pastel drawings he created as an acclaimed member of the artists' collective known as the Ashcan School. His ...professional development came, however, from his apprenticeship as a newspaper and magazine artist. Luks spent his early career drawing cartoons, spot illustrations, political caricatures, and comic strips for theNew York Worldand other papers. These early portraits and stories of street urchins, peddlers, shopkeepers, and other ordinary New Yorkers would all be revisited in his later painting. He achieved fame when he took over drawingHogan's Alleyfor Joseph Pulitzer'sNew York Worldafter the strip's originator Richard F. Outcault defected to William Randolph Hearst'sNew York Journal.
Life on the Press: The Popular Art and Illustrations of George Benjamin Luksexplores the roots of the artist's career drawing turn-of-the-twentieth-century New York City. The city's vital popular press served as a crucible in which a number of American artists honed their talents and learned how to communicate ideas to a broad popular audience.
The resultant work, both popular and controversial, challenged notions of good art and proper subject matter. Robert L. Gambone's study brings Luks's early work to light and reveals the funny, often edgy, and sometimes prejudicial creations that formed the base upon which Luks built his later career.
Another contemporaneous development that was crucial to the work of the Ashcan group was the growing importance of pictorial illustrations in newspapers and magazines, along with what Zurier ...identifies as the "new economic formula" that attended it: "huge circulation to a mass audience at a low price was subsidized by advertisements, which also paid for the printing presses that could reproduce images in large quantities" (p. 72).
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