63129: George Luks, High Bridge Harlem River, pastel Start Price USD 6,000.00 Current Price USD 8,000.00 Time Left - Bid Count 5 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Thursday, November 20, 2008 End Time Thursday, November 20, 2008 Location Heritage Auction Galleries See more about '63129: George Luks, High Bridge Harlem River, pastel' Description click for larger image63129: George Luks, High Bridge Harlem River, pastel GEORGE BENJAMIN LUKS (American, 1867-1933)High Bridge Harlem River, circa 1915Pastel crayon on cardboard13-1/2 x 15 inches (34.3 x 38.1 cm)Signed lower right: George Luks In 1908, the Macbeth Gallery in New York mounted an independent exhibition of artists who became known as "The Eight," consisting of Arthur B. Davies, Maurice Prendergast, Ernest Lawson, William Glackens, Everett Shinn, John Sloan, and George Luks. This show was a milestone in modern American painting and defied the constraints of traditional academic painting. "The Eight" were known for their gritty, realistic representations of urban development in and around New York City.Symbolizing the dawn of the technological age, bridges became a leitmotif in American modernist paintings. The High Bridge had been commissioned in the mid-nineteenth century to lend the grandeur of Rome to New York, and it became a favorite of American painters who had studied in Europe. While the bridge took its design cues from the Roman aqueducts, it also incorporated the most contemporary designs of its time. Ernest Lawson's Harlem River at High Bridge from around 1915 is in the permanent collection of the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco. We are grateful to Judith Hanson O'Toole for her generous assistance in the attribution of this lot to the hand of George Luks. 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