Portrait of a Young Girl (Antoinette Kraushaar)

Brooklyn Museum photograph
Object Label
George Benjamin Luks occasionally painted formal portraits such as this one of the fifteen-year-old Antoinette Kraushaar (1902--1992), who posed in her grammar school graduation dress. Although her father was a respected art dealer (she followed him in the profession), she had never actually seen an artist at work before sitting for Luks. She later recalled, "It was very interesting because you could see how he would put a strong stroke in the painting--I couldn't see the painting, but I could see him as he worked on it. At one point he said there was an awful lot of white, so he went around the studio and came up with a dusty piece of blue linen that he draped over my shoulder."
Caption
George Benjamin Luks American, 1867–1933. Portrait of a Young Girl (Antoinette Kraushaar), 1917. Oil on canvas, 60 1/8 × 40 1/16 in. (152.7 × 101.7 cm) frame: 62 1/4 × 42 1/4 × 2 1/2 in. (158.1 × 107.3 × 6.4 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Antoinette M. Kraushaar, 1991.205. No known copyright restrictions (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 1991.205_SL1.jpg)
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Artist
Title
Portrait of a Young Girl (Antoinette Kraushaar)
Date
1917
Medium
Oil on canvas
Classification
Dimensions
60 1/8 × 40 1/16 in. (152.7 × 101.7 cm) frame: 62 1/4 × 42 1/4 × 2 1/2 in. (158.1 × 107.3 × 6.4 cm)
Signatures
Signed lower right: "George Luks"
Credit Line
Gift of Antoinette M. Kraushaar
Accession Number
1991.205
Rights
No known copyright restrictions
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