Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Allen Tucker Memorial Exhibition: December 6, 1939, to January 3, 1940
Year by year, it seemed to me, his search for the unattainable drew him further from the literal and the concrete. During the last years of his life he was evidently truly seeking for the unattainable. Profoundly religious he finally reached out in his painting toward the beyond. In The Crucifixion three small crosses glow on the top of a distant hill, a streak of lightning zigzags across the sky, the trees twist in the gale and startled figures throwup. Their arms in terror. The Light is there. This is a late picture toward which each observer will react in his own way. But react he will. For me it is both an exalted and a desperate picture, exalted in its high intensity of religious emotion, desperate in its effort to reach the other side.
I see in the picture Or perhaps read into it the summation of an artist who began with light and ended with light, light of the spring, of a rainy day, of the undiluted sun, light of the street lamps seen through the dark, light of the stage, light of the night and finally the light of faith.
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