Theodore Nikolai Lukits (November 26, 1897 – January 20, 1992) was a Romanian American portrait and landscape painter. His initial fame came from his portraits of glamorous actresses of the silent film era, but since his death, his Asian-inspired works, figures drawn from Hispanic California and pastel landscapes have received greater attention.
Lukits began his professional career as an illustrator while still in his teens. He was a still life painter, muralist and founder of the Lukits Academy of Fine Arts in Los Angeles for more than sixty years. He had the reputation of a craftsman who made his own paints from raw pigments, constructed brushes and palettes, and designed and carved frames. Lukits was responsible for keeping the "Beaux-Arts" methods of the French academic system alive in the western United States, and several of his students went on to prominent careers.[1] His works are displayed in many public collections. He was a member of a number of professional art organizations and won many awards in competitions. Lukits has been the subject of a number of solo museum exhibitions since his death, and his work has been included in a number of other museum exhibitions devoted to Tonalism and California and American Impressionism.
attention. Lukits began his professional career as an illustrator while still in his teens. He was a still life painter, muralist and founder of the Lukits Academy...
Lukits is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Eleanor Merriam Lukits (1909–1948), American painter TheodoreLukits (1897–1992), Romanian-born...
of TheodoreLukits in the 1970s, conveys the magical shimmer of light in ephemeral sunsets and the tranquility of the sea." As his teacher Lukits did...
the early 1920s, Murray was painted by Hollywood portrait painter TheodoreLukits. This work titled Symphony in Jade and Gold (The Actress Mae Murray)...
enrolled in the Lukits School of Fine Arts, where she studies classical art under the director, TheodoreLukits. Eleanor became one of Lukits's favorite models...
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atelier of TheodoreLukits (1897–1992), the Lukits Academy, in 1968. At that time painters like R. H. Ives Gammell (1893–1981) in Boston and Lukits in Los...
2010 Morseburg, Jeffrey, TheodoreLukits, An American Orientalist, Exhibition Catalog, Pacific Asia Museum, 1998 (Essays on Lukits and his Asian Subjects)...
American Impressionism California Plein-Air Painting Richard E. Miller TheodoreLukits Christian von Schenidau List of German painters Buehr family papers...
1997 Lucile Lukits, Student Tuition Records, Lukits Academy Archive See Peter Adams' "Recollections" in The Pastel Landscapes of TheodoreLukits, Carnegie...
Master of Moonlight," had one work, the portrait and landscape painter TheodoreLukits had four, J. Mason Reeves Jr. had six and the La Cresenta portrait...
traveling exhibition entitled, "TheodoreLukits, An American Orientalist," dedicated to the Asian-themed works of Thedore Lukits, who had first been a member...
William Baziotes, Albert Bierstadt, Mary Cassatt, Arny Karl, Walt Kuhn, TheodoreLukits, Thomas Moran, Gilbert Stuart, Thomas Sully, and Pittsburgh native...
Institute. While there, he shared a studio with a younger artist, TheodoreLukits, whom he would be linked to and remain friends with for the rest of...
for advertising agencies, while her sister Corinne studied art under TheodoreLukits. According to census records, at some point during this time period...
(1883–1950) Wilby Walter Hauserer (1891–1969) Olin H. Travis (1888–1975) TheodoreLukits (1897–1992) Walter C. Brownson (1881–1968) Decorative Impressionism...
This exhibit states that she was a pupil of TheodoreLukits in New York, which is incorrect. The Lukits school was in Los Angeles. "Illustrators Page"...
became quite different. The large body of work the California artist TheodoreLukits did in the pastel medium or the hundreds of moonlit scenes painted...
prominent artists studied at the Academy including the California painter TheodoreLukits (1897–1992), the Taos painter Dale Nichols (1904–1995) and the cartoonist...
politician. Charles Kenny, 93, American composer, author, and violinist. TheodoreLukits, 94, Romanian-American painter. Jean-Pierre Lecocq, 44, Belgian molecular...
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