Allen Tucker
1866 - 1939
Allen Tucker was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1866. He studied architecture at the school of Mines of Columbia University and started his career as an architectural draftsman working for his father's architectural firm, McIvaine and Tucker. Tucker later went on to study painting at the Art Students League with Impressionist John H. Twachtman. He eventually left his father's firm to paint full-time. In 1911, Tucker became a charter member of the Association of American Painters and Sculptors and he helped organize the Armory Show of 1913. He taught at the Art Students' League from 1921 to 1928 and traveled to New Mexico, the New England coast, Europe, and the Colorado and Canadian Rockies to paint landscapes and coastal portraits. Allen Tucker died in 1939 in New York City.
Mount Desert Island, Maine
25 x 30 inches
Oil on canvas
Signed lower right 1914