a dozen figurative works, a collection of pastels, and some works that were created en plein air on the grounds of the missions in the 1920s. One of his students, Kalan Brunink, followed his lead and became principal artist of the famed Old Town Olvera Street, Los Angeles and has a notable collection of Spanish-Mexican-American paintings and Mission San Juan Capistrano works. The Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art has a notable collection of plein-air pastels by Theodore Lukits. These have been central to two exhibitions at SAMA, one in 1999, devoted to landscape pastels, and the other in 2008, which featured watercolors and pastels. Mission San Juan Capistrano was the site of another Lukits exhibition in 2001 titled Romance of the Mission, which was held in the courtyard of the mission in conjunction with the annual benefit dinner. Partial exhibition record 1926 – Solo Exhibition, Theodore Lukits, The Southby Art Salon, Hollywood, California, opened September 23, 1926 1926 – Solo Exhibition, Exhibition of Portraits and Paintings by Theodore Lukits, Cafe Montmatre Salon, Hollywood, California November 4, 1926 (23 works including portraits and landscapes) 1926 – Solo Exhibition, Annual Winter Exhibition, Portraits and Paintings by Theodore Lukits, Cafe Montmatre Salon, Hollywood, California November 25, 1926 (39 works including portraits and landscapes) 1928 – Solo Exhibition, Edgewater Beach Club, Santa Monica, California, September, 1928 (22 works including portraits, landscapes and a maritime work) 1930 – Group Exhibition, Ebell Salon, Los Angeles, California, March, 1930 1930 – Solo Exhibition, Ainslie Galleries, Los Angeles, California, November 1–30, 1930 16 (16 works including figurative works and landscapes) 1931 – Solo Exhibition, Desert Paintings by Theodore Lukits, Desert Art Gallery, Palm Springs, California, February 1–28, 1931 1931 – Solo Exhibition, Stendahl Galleries, Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, California, June 1–13, 1931, (27 works including decorative portraits and landscapes) 1935 - Solo Exhibition, Barbara Hotel, Santa Barbara, California, Circa 1935 (exhibition featuring Sierra Moonlight and Laughing Mood, hosted by John Yuke) 1935 – Group Exhibition, Biltmore Salon, Hotel Biltmore, Los Angeles, California 1937 – Group Exhibition, International Aeronautical Art Exhibition, Los Angeles Museum, Los Angeles, California, February 5–19, 1937 (won E.K. Hill Trophy for Best of Show for Portrait of Thea Rasche) 1937 – Group Exhibition, Mission Inn Riverside, California, February 20–21, 1937 (works by Lukits, Schuster, Askenazy, Yens, Foster, Warner, etc.) 1937 – Group Exhibition, California Art Club Exhibition, Municipal Art Commission Galleries, February, 1937 (exhibited Shadow