The Brook, Nova Scotia
Luks was a gifted and enthusiastic watercolorist, producing in all about 240 sheets. He joined the New York Watercolor Club in 1914 and held exhibitions of his watercolors at the Rehn Gallery and the Kraushaar Gallery, his dealers in New York. In this landscape, Luks responds to nature's power and beauty, showing a rushing brook carrying logs along as it flows rapidly over boulders and between rocky banks. Luks seems equally engaged with details of nature such as the branch that overhangs the brook at the right and with creating an abstract pattern from rapid, watery strokes on bright white paper.
Artwork Details
- Title: The Brook, Nova Scotia
- Artist: George Luks (American, Williamsport, Pennsylvania 1866–1933 New York)
- Date: 1919
- Culture: American
- Medium: Watercolor and pencil on paper
- Dimensions: 14 x 20 in. (35.6 x 50.8 cm)
- Credit Line: The Lesley and Emma Sheafer Collection, Bequest of Emma A. Sheafer, 1973
- Object Number: 1974.356.13
- Curatorial Department: The American Wing
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