Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00009174Holiday on the Hudson
by George Luks
About the Artwork
A sun-dappled scene of middle-class leisure, Holiday on the Hudson is an atypical work by Luks, who more often turned to gritty tenement subjects for inspiration. Throughout his career, the painter fashioned himself as a brash, profane, and hard-drinking antagonist to New York’s genteel art-world establishment. The museum purchased this work just four months before the artist was beaten to death in the wake of a speakeasy argument.
Inscriptions
signed lower right: George Luks
Provenance
(C. W. Kraushaar Galleries, New York).
Exhibition history
The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 26-October 4, 1936). Exhibition of American Painting from 1860 Until Today. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-October 4, 1937). The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941). The Eight. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (February 9-March 4, 1944). What Was the Armory Show?. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (June 27-September 15, 1963). George Luks 1866-1933: An Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings Dating from 1889 to 1931. Munson Museum of Art, Utica, NY (organizer) (April 1-May 20, 1973). Heritage and Horizon: American Painting 1776 - 1976. Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo, NY (organizer) (March 7-April 11, 1976); The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (May 2-June 13, 1976); The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH (July 4-August 15, 1976); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (September 8-October 10, 1976).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- George Luks (American, 1866–1933)
- Date
- c. 1912
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Framed: 96.5 x 111.5 x 6 cm (38 x 43 7/8 x 2 3/8 in.); Unframed: 76.2 x 91.7 cm (30 x 36 1/8 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- American Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection
- Accession no.
- 1933.2291
Open-access museum record · AT-00009174
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