Artist Luks, George Benjamin
     nationality American
     birth-death 1866/67-1933-1866/67-1933
Creation date about 1907
Materials oil on canvas
Dimensions 36 x 26 in. 40 3/8 x 31 in. (framed)
Location Urban Realism Gallery
Credit line Gift of Mrs. Albert J. Beveridge
Accession number 38.5

Gallery Label

The colorful palette of this painting is in keeping with the gaiety and theatricality of the subject.

New Year's Shooter was painted about the time of the exhibition of The Eight, a group of artists who opposed traditional painting formulas based on careful drawing and modeling.