Girl Carrying Doll
Artist
Luks, George
(American, 1867 - 1933)
Dateca. 1908-1915
OriginUnited States of America
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions24 1/4 × 20 1/4 in. (61.6 × 51.4 cm)
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LineGift of Carolyn K. and Richard F. Barry III
Object number2017.24
Label TextGeorge Luks, (American, 1867–1933)
Girl Carrying a Doll
Oil on canvas, 1908–1915
Gift of Carolyn K. and Richard F. Barry III
A first-generation immigrant, George Luks became a leading mind of the Ashcan school of artists, a loosely formed Social Realist movement intent on truthfully capturing contemporary urban realities. Luks’ work often focused on the laborers living in the slums of Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Of special interest to him were the “Little Mothers” of the city’s ghettos, very young girls left by their laboring parents to care for their baby siblings. Girl Carrying a Doll both references the innocence of childhood as well as a time in American history when little girls shouldered adult responsibilities.
Status
On view
Buttersworth, Thomas
ca. 1835
