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Augustus Vincent Tack (1870–1949) was an American painter of portraits, landscapes and abstractions. Tack was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and moved with his family to New York in 1883. After graduating from 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 La Farge, whose portrait he painted around 1900. He had his first solo exhibition at the Kraushaar Galleries in New York City in 1896. In 1897, he moved to an artists’ colony in Deerfield, Massachusetts, where he met and later married Agnes Gordon Fuller, daughter of artist 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 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 in Deerfield, Massachusetts. About 1914 to 1915 his work attracted the notice of Washington DC art collector and critic 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. Three-quarter view portrait of a man. Inscribed in red pencil at the lower right hand corner "Mr. Hamilton [?] / '7/AGT Others have said the portrait resembles C. Alice Baker of Deerfield.
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