Indian Hills, VT
Type:Painting
Year:ca. 1930
Size:20.00" x 24.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Lower Right
Allen Tucker ART FOR SALE
1866 Brooklyn, New York - 1939 New York, New York. Known for: Landscape, coastal, portrait, figure.
Allen Tucker, was an architect and painter so influenced by Vincent Van Gogh that he was called "Vincent in America". (Gerdts 291) Robert Henri and Maurice Prendergast were also credited as having an... Read full biography
Allen Tucker, was an architect and painter so influenced by Vincent Van Gogh that he was called "Vincent in America". (Gerdts 291) Robert Henri and Maurice Prendergast were also credited as having an influence on Tucker's brushwork and compositions, the latter decisively. However, as his painting... Read full biography
Allen Tucker, was an architect and painter so influenced by Vincent Van Gogh that he was called "Vincent in America". (Gerdts 291) Robert Henri and Maurice Prendergast were also credited as having an influence on Tucker's brushwork and compositions, the latter decisively. However, as his painting evolved, he did not fit into any tidy slot for description and was known as an individualist not easily categorized in American art history. Tucker was born in Brooklyn in 1866 and graduated from the... Read full biography
Allen Tucker, was an architect and painter so influenced by Vincent Van Gogh that he was called "Vincent in America". (Gerdts 291) Robert Henri and Maurice Prendergast were also credited as having an influence on Tucker's brushwork and compositions, the latter decisively. However, as his painting evolved, he did not fit into any tidy slot for description and was known as an individualist not easily categorized in American art history. Tucker was born in Brooklyn in 1866 and graduated from the School of Mines of Columbia University with a degree in architecture and took a job as an architectural draftsman in the architectural firm of McIvaine and Tucker, his fathers business. During that time, he studied painting at the Art Students League... Read full biography
Allen Tucker, was an architect and painter so influenced by Vincent Van Gogh that he was called "Vincent in America". (Gerdts 291) Robert Henri and Maurice Prendergast were also credited as having an influence on Tucker's brushwork and compositions, the latter decisively. However, as his painting evolved, he did not fit into any tidy slot for description and was known as an individualist not easily categorized in American art history. Tucker was born in Brooklyn in 1866 and graduated from the School of Mines of Columbia University with a degree in architecture and took a job as an architectural draftsman in the architectural firm of McIvaine and Tucker, his fathers business. During that time, he studied painting at the Art Students League with Impressionist John H. Twachtman, but it was not until around 1904, when he was 38, that Tucker became a full-time painter, leaving archite... Read full biography
Allen Tucker - Art for Sale (3 available)
Woman with Magazine
Type:Painting
Size:25.00" x 30.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Lower Left
Notes:
A wonderful portrait by the "American Van Gogh," this unique painting captures the beauty in a simple, everyday moment. Incredible movement, texture and use of color transform the ordinary into the extraordinary in this beautiful painting. Offered in a signed Meltzer frame.
Pot of Gold/Over the Rainbow
Type:Painting
Year:1924
Size:30.00" x 34.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Signed and Dated
Notes:
Always the architect/artist, Tucker understood Van Gogh's cypress tree's and their connection to the obelisk, which symbolize eternal life. Tucker connects earth and the heavens with the tree's to further embrace Van Gogh's influence. See the 2024 show at the Met on his works with cypress trees.