Artist George Luks, an Ashcan School painter who a century ago stalked the tattered precincts of New York for subjects.

“Necho Allen Discovering Coal,” a 1927 painting by George Luks, was gifted to the Necho Allen Hotel by coal baron Henry Sheafer. It now hangs in the Ciletti Memorial Library at Penn State ...

Its centerpiece was an almost life-size painting of a miner, “The Fire Boss.” It was the work of George Luks, by that time a well-known American painter who considered the coal region his home.

Its centerpiece was an almost life-size painting of a miner, “The Fire Boss.” It was the work of George Luks, by that time a well-known American painter who considered the coal region his home.

George Benjamin Luks of Manhattan, originally of Williamsport, Pa., was twice in the news last week. In Baltimore, as judge of a Pan-American exhibition of paintings opened with unction by ...

George Luks’ oil painting “The Fire Boss” (1925) remains in the collections of The National Gallery of Washington. (SUBMITTED PHOTO) ...

Its centerpiece was an almost life-size painting of a miner, “The Fire Boss.” It was the work of George Luks, by that time a well-known American painter who considered the coal region his home.

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