The Old Duchess, 1905, Oil on canvas, 30 x 25 in. (76.2 x 63.5 cm), Paintings, George Luks (American, Williamsport, Pennsylvania 1866–1933 New York), Luks showed this canvas in the landmark show of the Eight at New York’s Macbeth Galleries in February 1908. In 1916 his dealer, Kraushaar Galleries, included it in another exhibition. Reviewing that show, the critic James Gibbons Huneker described the painting’s subject: “In life she was an elderly hag with a distinguished bearing, a depraved woman of rank, who wore five or six dresses at once, on her head a shapeless yet attractive gear, and in her pocket she carried a fat roll of bills for purposes of dissipation, or bribery, or for bailing out some Tenderloin wreck
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Old Duchess, 1905, Oil, canvas, 30 x 25, 76.2 63.5 cm, Paintings, George Luks, American, Williamsport, Pennsylvania, 1866–1933, New York, Luks showed, landmark, Eight, Macbeth, Galleries, February 1908, 1916, dealer, Kraushaar Galleries, included, another exhibition, Reviewing, critic James, Gibbons, Huneker, described, painting, subject, life, elderly hag, distinguished bearing, depraved woman, rank, wore five, six dresses, head, shapeless yet, attractive, gear, pocket, carried, fat roll, bills, purposes, dissipation, bribery, bailing out, Tenderloin wreck
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