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John Luke

John Luke (1906 - 1975) was active/lived in Ireland.  John Luke is known for Landscape and figure painting, murals.

John Luke RUA (1906-75)

The Irish landscape artist and figurative painter John Luke was born in Belfast and worked in a shipyard and Flax Mill before taking night classes at the Belfast School of Art.  There, he won a scholarship and the following year a prize in a Royal Dublin Society competition which led him to travel to London to study fine art painting, drawing and sculpture at the Slade School of Art* under Henry Tonks.  The artists Tom Carr and F. E. McWilliam were his contemporaries at the time.  After exhibiting at the Redfern Galleries in London, he completed a mural for a travel company, spending the proceeds on a trip to Paris.  After this, he took evening classes in figure painting at the Westminster School of Art* under Walter Bayes and showed at the Leger Gallery.

In 1931 he returned to Belfast.  By now, landscape painting was his dominant interest. In 1933 he exhibited with the Northern Ireland Guild of Artists.  More exhibiti   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 4907 characters.]  Artist bio

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