Theodore N. Lukits (1897-1992)
             
   

Competition painting by Theodore Lukits for composition class, April 1916. Inscribed: "Budney- (Budney was the class monitor) L. Kamm is playing harp - Ha! Ha! P.S. get me some extra copies as he asked for several prints."

   
Background information: Fine arts students at art academies like the Art Institute of Chicago studied composition, integrating a number of figures into a single painting. In Lukits' day, most of these still relied on classical motifs - nymphs, satyrs and putti. Lukits studied composition at the Art Institute of Chicago with both Harry M. Walcott and Karl Buehr.
 
   

Compositional study for combined composition class taught by Karl Bueher and Harry M. Walcott; dated March 7, 1915

 
 
  Theodore Lukits and chums in Chicago, May 1914.
Photograph probably taken at Chicago Botanical Garden 		    Theodore Lukits' residence in Chicago, dated 8/23/1916. Probably 1740 N. Adams.  
Lukits' first residence in Los Angeles: 1193 Leighton Ave. (c. 1920)