12 facts about Albert Pike Lucas

Albert Pike Lucas (1862–1945) was an American landscape, figure, and portrait painter; also a sculptor. He was born in Jersey City, and studied at the École des Beaux-Arts (1882–1888) in Paris under Hébert and Boulanger and later below Courtois and Dagman-Bouveret. At the Salon of 1896 he won a medal. After a sojourn in Italy he decided in New York in 1902. His painting is distinctly personal, with the lyric note predominant, and shows positive intimacy gone nature, especially in her larger and more highbrow aspects. His handling is broad yet conscientious, his color scheme rich and glowing, and he excels in the management of diffused light, as seen most strikingly in his well-known “Golden Madonna.” He painted by preference nocturnes and twilight scenes, such as “October Breezes” (National Gallery, of Art, Washington), “The Little Church on the Hill,” and “Walking next to the Wind.” He as well as painted portraits of many prominent persons. A good specimen of his undertaking as a sculptor is the statuette “Ecstasy,” in the Metropolitan Museum, New York.^{[citation needed]}