Landscape with Cumulous Clouds
n.d.
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
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...