Augustus Vincent Tack, a painter of portraits, murals and abstractions, was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1870. From 1923 until his death in 1949, he produced approximately seventy-eight... Read full biography
Augustus Vincent Tack, a painter of portraits, murals and abstractions, was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1870. From 1923 until his death in 1949, he produced approximately seventy-eight abstract paintings. He has been described as "a Symbolist* artist who entertained Romantic concepts about... Read full biography
Augustus Vincent Tack, a painter of portraits, murals and abstractions, was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1870. From 1923 until his death in 1949, he produced approximately seventy-eight abstract paintings. He has been described as "a Symbolist* artist who entertained Romantic concepts about the relationship of man, God, and nature." (Isaacs). His family was Roman Catholic, and Tack attended the Jesuit School St. Francis Xavier in New York City, graduating with an A.B. degree in 1890. He... Read full biography
Augustus Vincent Tack, a painter of portraits, murals and abstractions, was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1870. From 1923 until his death in 1949, he produced approximately seventy-eight abstract paintings. He has been described as "a Symbolist* artist who entertained Romantic concepts about the relationship of man, God, and nature." (Isaacs). His family was Roman Catholic, and Tack attended the Jesuit School St. Francis Xavier in New York City, graduating with an A.B. degree in 1890. He then began to study art in New York under H. Siddons Mowbray, John Twachtman and John La Farge. This program of working with individual artists whose work he admired developed his talent so quickly that a painting he, age 19, sent to the Society of... Read full biography
Augustus Vincent Tack, a painter of portraits, murals and abstractions, was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1870. From 1923 until his death in 1949, he produced approximately seventy-eight abstract paintings. He has been described as "a Symbolist* artist who entertained Romantic concepts about the relationship of man, God, and nature." (Isaacs). His family was Roman Catholic, and Tack attended the Jesuit School St. Francis Xavier in New York City, graduating with an A.B. degree in 1890. He then began to study art in New York under H. Siddons Mowbray, John Twachtman and John La Farge. This program of working with individual artists whose work he admired developed his talent so quickly that a painting he, age 19, sent to the Society of American Artists* in 1889 received the highest rating and a place of honor. In the early 1890s, Tack made a... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (58)
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A History of American Tonalism
2010
Cleveland, David Adams
592 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Tryon Artists: 1892-1942
2001
McCue, Michael
175 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
The Eye of Duncan Phillips A Collection in the Making
1999
Passantino, Erika D (editor)
819 pages (color)
The Art Students League of New York A History (Teachers)
1999
Steiner, Raymond J
0 pages
Modern American Painting 1910-194 Toward A New Perspective (Exhibition catalog)
1997
Agee, William C
24 pages
The Artists of Washington DC 1796-1996
1996
McMahan, Virgil E
240 pages
American Paintings at the High Museum of Art
1994
High Museum of Art
216 pages (color)
Augustus Vincent Tack Landscape of the Spirit (Exhibition catalog)
1993
Furth, Leslie
143 pages (color)
American Paintings An Illustrated Catalogue (Exhibition catalog)
1992
National Gallery of Art
545 pages
American Paintings and Sculpture to 1945 in the Carnegie Museum of Art
1992
Strazdes, Diana
511 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950 (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings
622 pages
The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
1,117 pages
Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One)
1990
Gerdts, William H
421 pages (color)
The Nebraska State Capitol: A Harmony of the Arts
1990
Luebke, Frederick C., Editor, H. Keith Sawyers, Dale Gibbes, Jon Nelson, Norman Geske
119 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings
612 pages
Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
538 pages
Sounding the Depths 150 Years of American Seascape
1989
Nelson, Harold B
111 pages (color)
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
Artists of the American West: Three Volumes A Biographical Dictionary
1985
Dawdy, Doris
1,184 pages
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
National Portrait Gallery Collection Illustrated Checklist
1985
Smithsonian Institution
461 pages
The Mystic North Symbolist Landscape Painting, N Europe & N America (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Nasgaard, Roald
253 pages (color)
100 Masterpieces of American Painting from Public Collections Washington D C
1983
Brown, Milton W
240 pages (color)
The American Landscape Tradition A Study and Gallery of Paintings
1982
Czestochowski, Joseph S
184 pages (color)
Dictionary of American Artists
1982
Opitz, Glenn
372 pages
American Paintings at Yale University: An illustrated Checklist (Exhibition catalog)