The Wrestlers
Artist	George Luks
Year	1905 (1905)
Medium	Oil on canvas
Subject	Twonude menwrestling
Dimensions	122.87 cm × 168.59 cm (48.37 in × 66.37 in)
Location	Museum of Fine Arts,Boston
Website	www.mfa.org/collections/object/the-wrestlers-32922

The Wrestlers is a 1905oil painting byGeorge Luks held at theMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston in Massachusetts, United States.^[1]The Wrestlers is Luks' best-known work.^[2] The painting depicts twonude menwrestling.^[3] He painted it in order to shock members of thePennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts whom he called "pink-and-white idiots".^[4]The Wrestlers was displayed at the 1908Ashcan School exhibition.^[5] A 1910 article inNew York World about the Exhibition of Independent Artists included an image of Luks'The Wrestlers despite the fact that the painting did not appear in that exhibition.^[6] In a 1908 diary entry, painterJohn French Sloan writes thatThe Wrestlers is among the best paintings he ever encountered.^[7] In 1992, art critic Carol Clark identifiedThe Wrestlers as one of Luks' best works, calling it "raw, roughly painted" and reflective of Luks' experiences in New York.^[8] In 1996, Allen Guttmann compared Luks'The Wrestlers toThomas Eakins'Wrestlers andMax Slevogt'sWrestling School, writing that all three paintings depict pairs of nude wrestling men lying on the ground ingrappling holds.^[9] In the 2009Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art, Ian Chilvers and John Glaves-Smith write thatThe Wrestlers emulates the "bravura painterly technique of artists such as Manet".^[10]

• Chilvers, Ian; John Glaves-Smith (2009).A Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art. Oxford University Press.ISBN 978-0199239658.
• Clark, Carol (1992).American Drawings and Watercolors. Metropolitan Museum of Art.ISBN 0870996398.
• D'Epiro, Peter; Mary Desmond Pinkowish (2010).What are the Seven Wonders of the World?. Random House.ISBN 978-0307491077.
• Doezema, Marianne (1992).George Bellows and Urban America. Yale University Press.ISBN 0300050437.
• Guttmann, Allen (1996).The Erotic in Sports. Columbia University Press.ISBN 0231105568.
• LaFeber, Walter; Richard Polenberg; Nancy Woloch (2015).The American Century: A History of the United States Since the 1890s. Routledge.ISBN 978-1317478409.
• Sloan, John French (2013). Bruce St. John; Herbert I. London (eds.).New York Scene: 1906-1913. Transaction Publishers.ISBN 978-1412842594.
• Souter, Gerry (2012).American Realism. Parkstone International.ISBN 978-1780429922.

• 1905 paintings
• Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
• Nude art
• Wrestling in the United States
• Paintings of people
• Sports paintings
• Wrestling culture

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