《从波士顿公园看灯塔街》乔治·卢克斯(George Luks)高清作品欣赏

乔治·卢克斯(George Luks)高清作品《从波士顿公园看灯塔街》

作品名：从波士顿公园看灯塔街

艺术家：乔治·卢克斯

年代：1923

风格：新现实主义

类型：风俗画

到十九世纪下旬，人们开始担心城市儿童无法进入户外。美国游乐场协会成立于1906，致力于为城市儿童推广公园和娱乐活动。乔治·卢克斯的《从波士顿公馆看灯塔街》说明了这个目标：两个穿着漂亮的年轻女孩在保姆的陪同下，在市中心的一个大型公园波士顿公馆遛狗。虽然公用牧场是在17世纪建立的，但是到了19世纪，它是城市中心的自然绿洲。最著名的是他对纽约贫穷地区街道生活的粗犷描绘，卢克斯描绘了更富裕的人。以及1922至1923年间他访问波士顿的社区。他是艺术家萨金特的表兄玛格丽特.萨金特的客人。Margarett Sargent在纽约有丰富的社会地位，他曾与卢克斯学习绘画和绘画。因为她是卢克斯去波士顿的导游，所以卢克斯熟悉了城里比较富裕的地区，如灯塔街和邻近的波斯顿公馆。在公园里享受新鲜空气和锻炼的女孩们身后，卢克斯在灯塔街上描绘了19世纪早期城市住宅优雅的蝴蝶结，波士顿流行的建筑风格，纽约几乎无人知晓。

Title:View of Beacon Street from Boston Common

artist:George Luks

Date:1923

Style:New Realism

Genre:genre painting

By the late nineteenth century, concern arose that city children had insufficient access to the outdoors. The Playground Association of America, founded in 1906, was dedicated to promoting parks and recreation for urban children. George Luks’s “View of Beacon Street from Boston Common” illustrates this goal: two beautifully dressed young girls, accompanied by their governess, walk their dog in Boston Common, a large park in the center of the city. Although the common had been established in the seventeenth century for the communal pasturing of cows, by the nineteenth century it was an oasis of nature in the midst of the city.Best known for his gritty images of street life in New York’s poorer districts, Luks painted more prosperous people and neighborhoods when he visited Boston from 1922 to 1923. He was a guest of Margarett Sargent, a cousin of the artist John Singer Sargent. Wealthy and socially prominent, Margarett Sargent had studied drawing and painting with Luks in New York. Because she was his guide to Boston, Luks became familiar with the more affluent areas of the city, such as Beacon Street and the adjacent Boston Common. Behind the girls who are enjoying fresh air and exercise in the park, Luks painted the graceful bow fronts of the early nineteenth-century townhouses on Beacon Street, architectural features popular in Boston and almost unknown in New York.