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Augustus Vincent Tack (American, 1870-1949)
Inland Channel, n.d.
Oil on panel, 18-1/2 x 18 in.
Signed at bottom left: Tack.
Gift of the Baker/Pisano Collection. 2001.9.236
Although trained in a traditional 19th century painting style, Augustus Vincent Tack's most important works are the mystical landscapes that he began painting towards the end of World War I. Duncan Phillips, a major patron of early American modernism, called them "landscapes of the mind" and he assembled the definitive collection of Tack's abstract paintings (Phillips Collection, Washington, DC). These landscapes belong to the mystical, romantic tradition in American art that begins with Albert Pinkham Ryder; and their faceted planes and subtle color harmonies are precursors of the abstract expressionist paintings of Clyfford Still, who admired Tack's work.
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