Allen Tucker
American modernist landscape painter and organizer
Allen Tucker was an American artist. He was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1866 and graduated from the School of Mines of Columbia University in 1887 with a degree in architecture and worked as a draftsman at McIlvaine and Tucker. In 1908, he exhibited with Robert Henri, George Luks, George Bellows and others, contemporary with The Eight. Tucker was active in organizing the 1910 first exhibit of the Independents, and was responsible for the catalog of the Armory Show of 1913. One of his landscapes appeared on the postcard announcement. In World War I, Tucker served in the American Ambulance Service in France. From 1921 through 1926, he served as an instructor at the Art Students League of New York where he became a close friend of Wilhelmina Weber Furlong and her husband Thomas Furlong the couple held administrative and executive positions at the league during his tenure as an instructor. His work appears in many major American museums and collections.
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Artworks by this artist
- Watercolor No. 35, Field With Two Pine Trees 1937
- Bagdad 1923
- Madison Square,Snow 1904
- Watercolor No. 63, Road 1930
- Cloudburst at Black Mesa, New Mexico 1925
- Surf Breaking, Cranberry Island 1913
- Watercolor No. 6, Blue Coast 1936
- October Trees ca. 1914
- The Pearl 1923
- Watercolor No. 73, Blue And Lavender 1928
- Bunker Hill
- Along the coast 1913
- The Orange Book
- The Rise
- Winter Landscape 1920
- Two Boats 1908
- Winter at Portland 1907
- Landscape 1909
- Watercolor No. 31, Landscape With Clouds ca. 1930