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Artist(s): George Benjamin Luks (Williamsport, PA, Aug 13, 1867 - Oct 29, 1933, New York, NY)
Title: The Little Madonna
Date: c. 1907
Dimensions: 27 3/8 in. x 22 1/4 in. (69.53 cm x 56.52 cm)
Medium: oil on canvas
Credit Line: Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA, gift of anonymous donor, 1930.4

This object is a member of the following groups (click any group name to view all objects in that group):

Periods and Styles: The Ashcan School & Urban Realism
Exhibitions: Currents/Crosscurrents
Themes: Gender

Exhibition History

This object was included in the following exhibitions:

Terms of Criticism, Addison Gallery of American Art, 00/00/00 - 5/10/1965
Memorial Exhibition of George Luks, The Newark Museum, 10/30/1934 - 1/6/1935
New York Realists (1900-1914), Whitney Museum of American Art, 2/9/1937 - 3/5/1937
The Eight, Brooklyn Museum, 11/24/1943 - 12/1/1944
Artists of the Philadelphia Press: William Glackens, George Luks, Everett Shinn,, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 10/14/1945 - 11/18/1945
Milestones of American Painting in Our Century, The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, 1/20/1949 - 12/31/1949
Juliana Force and American Art, American Federation of Arts, 9/24/1949 - 11/30/1950
Revolution and Tradition, Brooklyn Museum, 11/14/1951 - 1/7/1952
Loan to Stevens Memorial Library, Stevens Memorial Library, 3/13/1952 - 5/20/1952
Scope in Collecting [25th Anniversary Exhibition], Addison Gallery of American Art, 10/19/1956 - 12/24/1956
Terms of Criticism, Addison Gallery of American Art, 7/26/1963 - 12/23/1963
Winterfest '66 [version of Roots and Promise of American Art], Winterfest, 2/18/1966 - 2/27/1966
Terms of Criticism, Addison Gallery of American Art, 7/15/1966 - 10/3/1966
Roots and Promise of American Art, Addison Gallery of American Art, 1/10/1967 - 3/13/1967
Paintings from the Addison Gallery Collection, Showcase Cinema, 3/28/1967 - 4/25/1967
Aspects of American Art History-Group Exhibition of Paintings Loaned from Coll, Fitchburg Art Museum, 10/1/1968 - 11/15/1968
Terms of Criticism, Addison Gallery of American Art, 7/18/1969 - 10/19/1969
The Works, Addison Gallery of American Art, 11/7/1969 - 2/22/1970
The Finished Study and its Object, Jewett Arts Center/Wellesley College Museum, 9/10/1972 - 10/10/1972
George Luks, 1866-1933, Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute Museum of Art, 4/1/1973 - 5/20/1973
Masterworks of American Art from the Addison Gallery Collection, Hirschl and Adler Galleries, Inc., 10/6/1981 - 10/31/1981
The Eight: A New Spirit in American Art, Danforth Museum of Art, 10/26/1986 - 1/4/1987
Boys and Girls, Men and Women, Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/12/1990 - 6/10/1990
American Masterworks, Addison Gallery of American Art, 10/5/1990 - 12/16/1990
Masterworks from the Permanent Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 1/21/1994 - 4/3/1994
Ashcan Kids: Children in the Art of Henri, Luks, Glackens, Bellows & Sloan, Berry-Hill Galleries, Inc., 12/2/1998 - 1/16/1999
Parallel Perspectives: Early Twentieth Century American Art, Addison Gallery of American Art, 11/16/1999 - 5/1/2000
Inside and Out: Scenes of American Life from the Addison Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 9/26/2000 - 12/31/2000
Place and Perceptions, Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/16/2002 - 7/31/2002
Child's Play: Children from the Addison Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 10/29/2005 - 12/31/2005
Coming of Age: American Art, 1850s to 1950s, American Federation of Arts, 9/9/2006 - 9/7/2009
Eye on the Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 9/1/2016 - 3/19/2017
Currents/Crosscurrents: American Art, 1850–1950, Addison Gallery of American Art, 10/16/2020 - 3/7/2021

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