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1870 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - 1949 New York City. Known for: Figure-genre, landscape and religious painting.
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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Keywords (59)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
Art Media
- •Fresco Painting, Murals
- •Gouache
- •Ink
- •Mixed Media, Multi Media and/or Multli Styles
- •Oil Paint
- •Pen and Ink Drawing
- •Pencil, Graphite Drawing
- •Stained Glass Design, Restoration, Crafting
- •Watercolor/Watercolour
Art Style
- •Abstraction, Abstract
- •Impressionism Before 1940
- •Modernist, Modernism (Partially Abstract, Leading Edge)
- •Pure Abstraction, Line, Shape, Color, Texture
- •Realist, Representational, Naturalist Style
Art Subject
- •Allegory, Metaphor, Parable
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •History: Historical Figures, Sites, Buildings, Events
- •Human Head Images, Portrait Heads, Faces
- •Landscape
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Mountain Views, Mountainscapes
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Religion, Mysticism, Spirituality
- •Seascapes, Seasides
- •Snowscene, Winter Landscape
- •Symbolism, Iconography, Ceremonial
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Adirondack Mountains
- •Europe
- •France Before 1900
- •Giverny, France
- •Paris Studied and/or Worked Before 1900
- •Tryon, North Carolina
Art Association
- •Art Students League, New York
- •New Haven Paint & Clay Club
Art Teacher
- •Henry Siddons Mowbray
- •John Henry Twachtman
Art School
- •Art Students League of New York, Student
- •Art Students League of New York, Teacher
- •Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, Student
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Added Description
- •Art Educator:Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
- •Figure Specialty
- •Genre Specialty
- •Mural Specialty
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/International
- •Century of Progress, Chicago 1933
- •Louisiana Purchase Expo, St. Louis World's Fair 1904
Exhibition of Art Association
- •Boston Art Club-
- •National Academy of Design, New York
- •Paint and Clay Club-
Exhibition of Museum
- •Art Institute of Chicago
- •Carnegie Institute, International Exhibition
- •Corcoran Gallery and/or Art School, Washington DC
- •Museum of Modern Art, New York
- •Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art
Exhibition By An Art School
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts