Allen Tucker - Girl with a Bow in her Hair - 1913
American modern portrait of a young woman with a bow in her hair by Allen Tucker.
Tucker was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1866 and graduated from the School of Mines at Columbia University in 1887.
Tucker , sometimes known as ‘the American Van Gogh’, was very active in the budding modern art scene in America, exhibiting with Robert Henri, George Luks, George Bellows and others in a group called the The Eight in 1908, organizing the first exhibit of the Independents in 1910, and was he catalogued the work exhibited at the Armory Show of 1913. One of his landscape paintings appeared on the postcard announcement for the Armory Show.
From 1921 through 1926 he served as an instructor at the Art Students League of New York.
Tucker’s work held by many major American art institutions, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
This work was created in 1913, the year of the Armory Show. It is an oil on stretched canvas.
It measures 23.5 x 19.75 inches sight size, and 26 x 22 x 2 inches overall, including the framing.
Signed and dated by the artist.
Recently purchased from a San Francisco art dealer.
Signed and dated 1913.
