Ancestry.com, online research site, Lukits family history, U.S. Department of Immigration and Naturalization, Department of State Records, Immigration, Citizenship Merrell, Eric, Honorary Life Members of the California Art Club, CAC website, 2007–2010 Merrell, Eric, Historic Membership Roster of the California Art Club, CAC website, 2008–2010 Stern, Jean, Treasures of the Sierra Nevada, exhibition catalog, 1998 Newspaper references Lindsay, Estelle Lawton, "Santa Barbara Quake Restores $20,000 Treasure to Padres", Los Angeles Evening Express, July 22, 1925 (front page article with Lukits and unrestored painting) Lindsay, Estelle Lawton, "Brush Blots out Damage Quake Caused", Los Angeles Evening Express, August 12, 1925 (front page article with Lukits and restored painting) New York Times, "Earthquake Restores St. Francis Portrait", September 20, 1925 (clipping on Lukits' restoration of St. Francis painting for Santa Barbara Hotel) Los Angeles Sunday Times, "Beauty and Elegance", September 26, 1926, pg. 31 (photograph of the Ethel Wade portrait with caption of Southby Salon) "Lukits Weds, Artists Bare Rites in Santa Barbara", April, 1937 (clipping existent, unmarked, probably from Los Angeles Times or Herald Examiner) "Theodore Lukits Reveals Nuptials", April, 1937 (clipping existent, unmarked, probably from Los Angeles Times or Herald Examiner) "Shower Given for Mrs. Lukits", May 1937 (clipping existent, unmarked, probably from Los Angeles Times or Herald Examiner) "Bride Secretly Wedded Now Shower Guest", May, 1937 (clipping existent, unmarked, probably from Los Angeles Times or Herald Examiner) Stevens, Otherman, "Now and Then", Los Angeles Examiner, May 31, 1932 (newspaper review) Long Beach Press Telegram, "Posing by Critics of Art Condemned", March 16, 1938 (lecture by Lukits at Long Beach Art Association) Los Angeles Times, c. March, 1938 (note that Lukits will be guest artist for the Women's Club of South Pasadena) Reuter, Herman, "Painter Real Colorist, Reviewer States", Hollywood Citizen News, April 9, 1938 (positive review of portrait exhibition at Hollywood Women's Club) "Lukits Portraits Accorded Praise", Hollywood Citizen News, Saturday, April 16, 1938 (news clipping, reproductions of Laura June Williams portrait and Portrait of the Artists' Wife) Lusk, Freeman, possibly Hollywood Citizen News, April, 1938 (over the top review of Lukits' portrait exhibition at Hollywood Women's Club) Millier, Arthur, "Brush Strokes", Los Angeles Times, April 24, 1938 (announcement of Kurtzworth portrait unveiling) Wilshire Press, April 25, 1938, (short review of Lukits exhibition at Hollywood Women's Club and note of painting Mrs. Harry Muir Kurtzworth and Her Daughter Constance) "Art, Music Mingle when Ray Millands Entertain Friends", Los Angeles