Thompson and Bleecker Streets

Artist George B. Luks (American, 1867 - 1933)

Datec. 1905

MediumOil on canvas

DimensionsOverall: 20 x 30 1/16 in. (50.8 x 76.4 cm)

Credit LineGift of James and Barbara Palmer

Object number2005.14

Collections

ClassificationsPainting

Object NamePainting

DepartmentPermanent Collection

CultureNorth American

NationalityAmerican

On View

On view

Century

Twentieth

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InscribedAll on back: top stretcher bar: 636/202 [partially obscured]; THOMSON AND BLEECKER STREETS N.Y.C.; bottom stretcher bar: BY - GEORGE B. LUKS 1866–1933; top and right stretchers are stamped Babcock Galleries; verso top left and right are stamped: GEORGE LUKS SALE

Exhibition HistoryInaugural Installation: 20th Century American Galleries (103), Palmer Museum of Art, June 1, 2024 – present; An American Place: Selections from the James and Barbara Palmer Collection, Palmer Museum of Art, January 29 – May 1, 2022; In Private Hands: 200 Years of American Painting, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, October 1, 2005 - January 8, 2006; An Intimate Eye: Selections from the Collection of James and Barbara Palmer, Palmer Museum of Art, January 18 – May 15, 2005; Visions of America: Urban Realism, 1900–1945, Columbus Museum of Art and traveling, January 7 – March 3, 1996; Within Bohemia’s Borders: Greenwich Village, 1830–1930, Museum of the City of New York, October 16, 1990 – June 9, 1991; Views of New York, Walker Galleries, New York, May 29 – June 24, 1939; 20th Century New York in Painting and Prints, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, November 9 – 30, 1933; Frank Rehn Galleries, New York, n.d.ProvenanceBabcock Galleries, New York, NY The artist Estate of the artist George Luks Estate Sale, Parke-Bernet, New York, April 5, 1950, sale 1146, lot 45 Lillian Bostwick Phipps Estate of Lillian Bostwick Phipps American Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture, Sotheby’s, New York, May 25, 1988, sale 5721, lot 226 Acquired in 1989 from Babcock Galleries, New York On extended loan to Palmer Museum of Art, 2002–5Published ReferencesAmerican Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, May 25, 1988 (New York: Sotheby’s, 1988), n.p. (ill., color, no. 226). Art in American History—Transparencies and Teacher’s Discussion Guide with Worksheets (Austin: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1991), 39–40, 114, color transparency (no. 20). Beard, Rick, and Jan Seidler Ramirez, “‘A Maze of Crooked Streets’: Village Landscapes,” photo essay, in Greenwich Village: Culture and Counterculture, ed. Rick Beard and Leslie Cohen Berlowitz (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1993), 12 (ill., fig. 8). Coates, Robert M., “The Art Galleries,” The New Yorker, June 10, 1939, 43. Hutton, Molly S., “Walking in the City at the Turn of the Century: John Sloan’s Pedestrian Aesthetics,” in Heather Campbell Coyle and Joyce K. Schiller, John Sloan’s New York, exh. cat. (Wilmington: Delaware Art Museum, 2007), 86 (ill., color, fig. 67), 87. An Intimate Eye (2005), front cover (ill., color), 6. Marsden-Atlass, Lynn, Nicolai Cikovsky Jr., and Robert Rosenblum, In Private Hands: 200 Years of American Painting (Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 2005), 110, 111 (ill., color, pl. 33), 248. McGrady, Patrick, “Selections from the Collection of James and Barbara Palmer,” American Art Review 17 (March–April 2005): 118 (ill., color), 120. “Museums,” New York Magazine, September 10, 1990, 52 (ill., color). Ramirez, Jan Seidler, “New Century Cityscapes: Or, Painting the ‘New Metropolis,’” Culturefront 6 (Winter 1997–98), 135 (ill., color, fig. 2), 137. Ramirez, Jan Seidler, Within Bohemia’s Borders: Greenwich Village, 1830–1930: Interpretive Script Accompanying an Exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York (New York: Museum of the City of New York, 1991), 8. Robinson, Joyce Henri et al. A Gift From the Heart: American Art from the Collection of James and Barbara Palmer (University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013), viii, 3-4, 8n2, 30, 31, 34-35, 192, 193 (ill. 30, 31, 192). Robinson, Joyce Henri, "University Park, Pennsylvania | An American Place: Selections from the James & Barbara Palmer Collection," American Art Review, Vol. XXXIII no. 4 (2021): 113-114, 118, 119 (ill.). Rosenblum, Robert, “American Painting in the Twentieth Century: Ruptures and Continuities,” in Lynn Marsden-Atlass, Nicolai Cikovsky Jr., and Robert Rosenblum, In Private Hands, 40. Rosenblum, Robert, exhibition catalog: In Private Hands, pp. 40, 111, plate 33. Sawyers, June Skinner, ed., The Greenwich Village Reader: Fiction, Poetry, and Reminiscences, 1872–2002 (New York: Cooper Square Press, 2001), xxviii. Thomas, Michael M., “Art: Paintings of New York, The City’s Many Faces Captured on Canvas,” Architectural Digest 46 (November 1989): 278 (ill., color). Views of New York (brochure) (New York: Walker Galleries, 1939), n.p. (no. 12). Visions of America, Urban Realism, 1900–1945 (Columbus, Ohio: Columbus Museum of Art, 1996), 65, 83 (ill., color), 107 (no. 43). Zurier, Rebecca, Picturing the City: Urban Vision and the Ashcan School (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006), 92, 182, 307, n.p. (ill., color, pl. 6).