Landscape with Cumulous Clouds

Landscape with Cumulous Clouds by Allen Tucker

Medium

Graphic Arts-Print

Classification

Graphic Arts-Print

Department

Smithsonian Collection

Museum

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Credit

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Allen Tucker Memorial

Accession Number

1966.34.11

Tags

buildingmountainroadcloud

Art Historical Context

**Landscape with Cumulous Clouds** by Tucker invites visitors into a dynamic vista of the American countryside, where towering cumulous clouds dominate the sky above rugged mountains, winding roads, sturdy buildings. This undated graphic arts print masterfully blends natural grandeur with subtle human presence, evoking vast openness of rural landscapes that captivated early 20th-century artists. Tucker (1866–1939), an influential American painter and printmaker was part of the modernist wave that bridged Impressionism and emerging abstraction. His works often celebrated the dramatic interpla...

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