The image features nine facial sketches with different expressions and hairstyles. The sketches show head and shoulder representations with no bodies depicted. The faces have various orientations, including front-facing, profile, and angled views. The hairstyles range from straight to curly, with different lengths, and one sketch shows a man with a beard and mustache. Minimal clothing details are visible, with simple lines suggesting collars or necklines, and one figure is wearing a cap. No jewelry is depicted, and the sketches appear on a plain brown paper background. The artist's signature…
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Ten Heads

George Luks (American, 1866 - 1933)

c. 1905

Medium
black chalk on wove paper
Classification
Drawing
Dimensions
overall: 26.5 x 20.3 cm (10 7/16 x 8 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CG-W
Credit line
John Davis Hatch Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed

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