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Holiday on the Hudson

c. 1912

George Luks

(American, 1866–1933)
Culture
America
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
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.)
Credit Line
Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection 1933.2291
Public Domain
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Location
208 American Gilded Age and Realism
Print
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Did You Know?

Luks often boasted about being an amateur boxing champion, but this was later revealed to be a tall tale.

Description

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.
A horizontally oriented oil painting with thick, visible brushstrokes depicts five rowboats moored at a wooden pier on deep blue water. Boats in black, white, and green shades form vertical shapes on the water. A man in a yellow shirt stands in the second boat, while a cluster of figures with light skin tones and colorful parasols gathers on the wooden pier to the right, under a hazy blue sky.

Holiday on the Hudson

c. 1912

George Luks

(American, 1866–1933)
America

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