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born: Williamsport, Pennsylvania; 13 August 1867
died: New York City; 29 October 1933
Luks studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, and later in Germany, London, and Paris. Returning to the United States in 1894, he became an illustrator for the Philadelphia Press. He met the teacher and painter Robert Henri and the newspaper illustrators John Sloan and William Glackens. Luks served in Cuba in 1896 as a correspondent artist for the Philadelphia Bulletin during the Cuban struggle for independence from Spain. After returning to the United States, he worked as a cartoonist for the New York World.
In 1908, with Henri, Sloan, Glackens, and other painters, Luks formed a group called The Eight, which others called the Ashcan School, whose exhibition in New York is considered a key event in the history of contemporary painting.
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