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The Wrestlers (Luks)

The Wrestlers
A painting of two nude men with short hair wrestling on the ground, one lying on his back on top of the other, who is lying on his side, all with a black background
ArtistGeorge Luks
Year1905 (1905)
MediumOil on canvas
SubjectTwo nude men wrestling
Dimensions122.87 cm × 168.59 cm (48.37 in × 66.37 in)
LocationMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston
Websitewww.mfa.org/collections/object/the-wrestlers-32922

The Wrestlers is a 1905 oil painting by George Luks held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in Massachusetts, United States.[1] The Wrestlers is Luks' best-known work.[2] The painting depicts two nude men wrestling.[3] He painted it in order to shock members of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts whom he called "pink-and-white idiots".[4] The Wrestlers was displayed at the 1908 Ashcan School exhibition.[5] A 1910 article in New York World about the Exhibition of Independent Artists included an image of Luks' The Wrestlers despite the fact that the painting did not appear in that exhibition.[6] In a 1908 diary entry, painter John French Sloan writes that The Wrestlers is among the best paintings he ever encountered.[7] In 1992, art critic Carol Clark identified The Wrestlers as one of Luks' best works, calling it "raw, roughly painted" and reflective of Luks' experiences in New York.[8] In 1996, Allen Guttmann compared Luks' The Wrestlers to Thomas Eakins' Wrestlers and Max Slevogt's Wrestling School, writing that all three paintings depict pairs of nude wrestling men lying on the ground in grappling holds.[9] In the 2009 Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art, Ian Chilvers and John Glaves-Smith write that The Wrestlers emulates the "bravura painterly technique of artists such as Manet".[10]

  1. ^ Souter 2012, p. 114.
  2. ^ D'Epiro & Pinkowish 2010, p. 266.
  3. ^ "The Wrestlers". Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Retrieved August 1, 2015.
  4. ^ "The 'Eight' Who Made Revolution in U.S. Art: The Country Marks 'Ashcan' Anniversary". Life. March 3, 1958. p. 46.
  5. ^ LaFeber et al. 2015, p. 58.
  6. ^ Doezema 1992, p. 114.
  7. ^ Sloan 2013, p. 183.
  8. ^ Clark 1992, p. 164.
  9. ^ Guttmann 1996, p. 64.
  10. ^ Chilvers & Glaves-Smith 2009, p. 418.

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