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Allen Tucker

1866

WA-00046974

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WikidataQ4731924

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Smithsonianhttps://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artist/?id=4875
Tier 1 · Institutional95%

About

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Allen Tucker was an American painter whose work bridged late nineteenth-century tonalism and early modernist abstraction. Active in New York from the 1890s onward, he developed a practice centered on landscape and still life executed in a restrained palette and loose, gestural brushwork that emphasized atmospheric effect over descriptive detail. Tucker's approach anticipated aspects of American modernism while remaining rooted in the study of light and form from nature.

Source: Smithsonian Institution · Trust score: 95% · Updated 11d ago

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Artworks (7)

Headland

1931 · oil paint

30 x 36 1/8 in. (76.2 x 91.8 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Interior

1921 · oil paint

25 1/8 x 30 1/8 in. (63.6 x 76.3 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Blue and Gold

1919 · oil paint

20 1/16 in. × 24 in. (51 × 61 cm) Framed: 31 × 35 in. (78.7 × 88.9 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Tree

1917 · Black chalk pinked on the top on buff paper

9 7/8 x 8 1/2 in. (25.1 x 21.6 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Landscape

1909 · oil paint

14 x 20 in. (35.6 x 50.8 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Winter at Portland

1907 · oil paint

25 x 30 in. (63.5 x 76.2 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Bunker Hill Monument

1875 · Albumen print (carte-de-visite)

Image: 8.9 × 5.7 cm (3 9/16 × 2 1/4 in.); Card: 10.4 × 6.4 cm (4 1/8 × 2 9/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Artwork sources (5)

7 published of 29 catalogued · 28 with image

The Met
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Art Institute Chicago
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+ 3 more sources · 22 catalogued, not yet published

Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 5)

25 entries · 1 sources

Headland
1931 · Met · 5 prov
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Blue and Gold
1919 · Met · 5 prov
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Interior
1921 · Met · 5 prov
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Winter at Portland
1907 · Met · 5 prov
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Landscape
1909 · Met · 5 prov
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