biography of Eleanor Merriam LUKITS (1909-1948)

Addresses: Los Angeles, CA

Profession: Painter

Studied: with her father James Merriam; Lukits Academy of Art, Los Angeles, with Theodore Lukits

Member: Women Painters of the West; Las Artistas; Soc. of Western Artists

Comments: Daughter of J. Merriam (see entry), she married her teacher Th. Lukits (see entry) in 1937. A portrait painter at first, she later specialized in nature studies and floral still lifes with madonnas and oriental figures. She died of injuries sustained in a fire.

Sources: Hughes, Artists in California, 346.