Augustus Vincent Tack: Difference between revisions

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1870|11|9|mf=y}}

| birth_place = [[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]]

| death_date = July 1949

| death_place = [[New York City, New York]]

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Tack was born in [[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]] and moved with his family to New York in 1883. After graduating from [[Xavier High School (New York City)|St. Francis Xavier College]] in [[New York City]] in 1890, Tack studied at the [[Art Students League of New York]] until 1895. He is believed to have frequented the studio of painter and [[stained glass]] designer [[John LaFarge|John La Farge]], whose portrait he painted around 1900. He had his first solo exhibition at the Kraushaar Galleries in New York City in 1896. TheIn following year1897, he moved to an artists’ colony in [[Deerfield, Massachusetts]], where he met and later married Agnes Gordon Fuller, daughter of artist [[George Fuller (painter)|George Fuller]].

Tack maintained a studio in New York from 1894 until the end of his life. He had frequent exhibitions at New York City galleries. From 1900 until the 1920s, his work was shown regularly at the [[Worcester Art Museum]], at the [[Carnegie International]] exhibitions in Pittsburgh, and at the [[Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts]] in Philadelphia. He taught at the [[Art Students League of New York]] between 1906 and 1910 and at [[Yale University]] from 1910 to 1913. During these teaching years, he also shared a studio with his friend, fellow artist [[Will Hutchins (painter)|Will Hutchins]] in Deerfield, Massachusetts.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.shannons.com/hutchins-biography|title=Hutchins Biography|website=shannons|language=en|access-date=2020-03-22|archive-date=2020-03-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200321041931/https://www.shannons.com/hutchins-biography|url-status=dead}}</ref> About 1914 to 1915 his work attracted the notice of [[Washington DC]] art collector and critic [[Duncan Phillips (art collector)|Duncan Phillips]], who became his close friend and chief patron. Phillips and Tack also collaborated on the organization of the Allied War Salon of 1918. Tack died in 1949 in New York City.<ref>[http://stage.phillipscollection.org/research/american_art/bios/tack-bio.htm Biography]{{dead link|date=July 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} from the Phillips collection.</ref>

[[Category:19th-century American male artists]]