This painting depicts a woman from the waist up, seated sideways on a wooden chair. She is turned to the right, with her hands on the back of the chair, and looks over her shoulder towards us. She has pale skin and short reddish-brown hair visible beneath a green cap. Her red lips are slightly turned up at the edges, and her eyes are dark. She is wearing a brightly colored top with abstract shapes in orange, yellow, gray, and green against a cream background, and a green skirt that is the same shade as her hat. A bracelet adorns her wrist with vertical stripes of white, dark blue, and dark…
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Bizarre

painter Allen Tucker (American, 1866 - 1939)

1928

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 77 x 64.1 cm (30 5/16 x 25 1/4 in.) ; framed: 76.8 x 64.1 cm (30 1/4 x 25 1/4 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Gift of the Allen Tucker Memorial
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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