{"data":{"id":"909","type":"artwork","attributes":{"id":909,"topgoose_id":10649,"portfolio_id":null,"tms_id":909,"title":"Armistice Night","display_artist_text":"George Luks","display_date":"1918","accession_number":"54.58","dimensions":"Overall: 37 × 68 3/8 in. (94 × 173.7 cm)","medium":"Oil on canvas","department":"collection","classification":"Paintings","credit_line":"Gift of an anonymous donor","is_virtual":false,"is_portfolio":false,"portfolio_tms_id":null,"portfolio":null,"edition":null,"publication_info":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eGeorge Luks, \u003cem\u003eArmistice Night\u003c/em\u003e, 1918. Oil on canvas, overall: 37 × 68 3/8 in. (94 × 173.7 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of an anonymous donor 54.58\u003c/p\u003e","object_label":"\u003cp\u003eGeorge Luks’s \u003ci\u003eArmistice Night\u003c/i\u003e records one of the frenzied, flag-waving celebrations that marked the end of World War I. Luks’s skill at capturing the essence of an event in a few swift strokes was honed during his years as a newspaper illustrator in Philadelphia at the turn of the twentieth century, when he was often dispatched to sketch scenes of breaking news. In \u003ci\u003eArmistice Night\u003c/i\u003e, as in his earlier illustrations, Luks does not deliberate over particulars: the painting is a blur of American and Allied flags, faces, and fireworks. Blue smoke obscures the buildings in the background, and few individuals stand out in the quickly-rendered crowd. Typically, Luks was more committed to capturing the spirit of the moment than to transcribing visual facts—in this case the action and human drama in a celebratory crowd.\u003c/p\u003e","ai_alt_text":"Crowd gathers under streetlights with various flags waving, creating a lively and colorful scene.","alt_text":null,"visual_description":null,"on_view":false,"created_at":"2017-08-30T16:36:20.000-04:00","updated_at":"2026-04-06T06:00:02.936-04:00","images":[{"id":92480,"url":"https://whitneymedia.org/assets/artwork/909/54_58_cropped.jpg"}]},"relationships":{"artists":{"data":[{"id":"810","type":"artist"}]}}}}