Augustus Vincent Tack

Augustus Vincent Tack
(1870-1949)

Nationally acclaimed portrait and mural painter Augustus Vincent Tack and his wife, Agnes Gordon Fuller (1873-1959), divided their time between Deerfield in rural western Massachusetts and New York City where Tack kept a winter studio. Tack's work is on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the Cleveland Museum of Art in Cleveland, Ohio, Harvard University's Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the Phillips Memorial Gallery and National Gallery, both in Washington, D.C. Tack's presence in Deerfield lives on through his works there as well. In 1923 he painted a mural above the altar of St. James Roman Catholic Church in the village of South Deerfield. His work is also on view in Memorial Hall, the museum of the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, one of the country's first historical preservation societies.