This painting depicts a woman from the waist up, seated sideways on a wooden chair. She is turned to the right, with her hands on the back of the chair, and looks over her shoulder towards us. She has pale skin and short reddish-brown hair visible beneath a green cap. Her red lips are slightly turned up at the edges, and her eyes are dark. She is wearing a brightly colored top with abstract shapes in orange, yellow, gray, and green against a cream background, and a green skirt that is the same shade as her hat. A bracelet adorns her wrist with vertical stripes of white, dark blue, and dark red. The chair she sits on is light yellow wood, and the background is made of vertical lines of white, cream, and gray, with hints of pastel pink, minty green, and pale blue. The brushstrokes in the painting are visible.
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This painting depicts a woman from the waist up, seated sideways on a wooden chair. She is turned to the right, with her hands on the back of the chair, and looks over her shoulder towards us. She has pale skin and short reddish-brown hair visible beneath a green cap. Her red lips are slightly turned up at the edges, and her eyes are dark. She is wearing a brightly colored top with abstract shapes in orange, yellow, gray, and green against a cream background, and a green skirt that is the same shade as her hat. A bracelet adorns her wrist with vertical stripes of white, dark blue, and dark red. The chair she sits on is light yellow wood, and the background is made of vertical lines of white, cream, and gray, with hints of pastel pink, minty green, and pale blue. The brushstrokes in the painting are visible.

National Gallery of Art · Painting

Bizarre

Allen Tucker

Date
1928
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 77 x 64.1 cm (30 5/16 x 25 1/4 in.) framed: 76.8 x 64.1 cm (30 1/4 x 25 1/4 in.)
Classification
Painting
Accession number
1971.13.1
Credit line
Gift of the Allen Tucker Memorial
Time span
1926 to 1950
Department
CAB

Subjects and terms

  • painted surface
  • American
  • female
  • portrait
  • American Paintings of the Twentieth Century, Part I: Early American Modernism, 1900-1950 (NGA Online Editions)
Provenance

The artist [1866-1939]; by inheritance to his wife, Mrs. Allen Tucker [1870-1971, née Eufrasia Aguilar Leland Wesson], New York; The Allen Tucker Memorial, New York;[1] gift 1971 to NGA. [1] The Allen Tucker Memorial was established in 1944 by the artist's widow; it was transferred in 1980 to the Art Students League.

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lower left: Allen Tucker

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