John Luke
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John Luke (19 January 1906 – 4 February 1975) was an Irish artist.
At 4:47 Lewis Street, Belfast, he was born.
James Luke and his mother Sarah, who hails from Ahoghill, are the fifth of seven sons and one daughter.
He attended the Hillman Street National School and then went to work with the York Street Flax Spinning Company in 1920.
He soon began to work at the Workman, Clark shipyard, and though he wasn't working there, he took evening classes at Belfast College of Art. He flourished at the college under Seamus Stoupe and Newton Penpraze's tutelage.
Romeo Toogood, Harry Cooke Knox, George MacCann, and Colin Middleton were among his contemporaries.
He gained the coveted Dunville Scholarship in 1927, allowing him to study painting and sculpture under the mentorship of Henry Tonks, who greatly influenced his growth as a draughtsman. Luke attended the Slade School until 1930, the Robert Ross Scholarship being awarded that year.
After leaving the Slade, he remained in London, determined on establishing himself in the art world.
For a time, he shared a flat with fellow-Ulsterman F.E. McWilliam (1909-1992), who attended Walter Bayes' Westminster School of Art as a part-time student, to study wood engraving.
He began to exhibit his work in October 1930 and presented two paintings, The Entombment and Carnival, in an exhibition of contemporary art held at Leger Galleries.
P.G.'s influential critic, P.G., singled out the former work, depicting a group of masked merry-makers. Konody of the Daily Mail (3 October 1930) as 'one of the exhibit's most prominent features'.
But the political climate was fading, and a year later, at the end of 1933, he was brought back to Belfast by the recession.
Except for a time during the Second World War when he went to Killylea, County Armagh, he stayed in Belfast.
Later life
John Luke died in Belfast on February 4, 1975, just a month into his sixty-ninth year. In 1978, a retrospective exhibition of his work was on display in the Ulster Museum in association with the Arts Councils of Ireland, and it was followed by a short monograph on his life and career written by John Hewitt. His reputation has risen tremendously since his demise in several of his former students' life-rooms at the College of Art, his coat folded to perfection, and his warm, compassionate demeanor of instruction have reignited memories in many of his former students.