A pintura que tornou William Tasker famoso(a) é Lord Westminster's Cardinal Puff, with Sam Darling Up, Winning the Tradesman's Plate, Chester (1839); ela está exposta no Yale Center for British Art, em New Haven. The Liverpool and National Steeplechase at Aintree, 1843 (1843) e National Defense (1921) seguem-lhes nos corações de colecionadores e visitantes de museus. Dos 3 trabalhos de William Tasker em nosso catálogo, estas 3 são as obras mais admiradas, cada uma apresentada com a sua data, o seu museu e o que a torna única.
Classificado de acordo com o nosso índice de popularidade, que combina buscas, visitas e pedidos de cada obra. Atualizado em Novembro 2026.
Os 2 museus que detêm a maioria das pinturas desta página.
| Museus | Cidade | Obras de William Tasker | Pinturas desta lista |
|---|---|---|---|
 Yale Center for British Art |
New Haven | 2 | Lord Westminster's Cardinal Puff, with Sam Darling Up, Winning the Tradesman's Plate, Chester, The Liverpool and National Steeplechase at Aintree, 1843 |
 Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Nova York | 1 | National Defense |
Lord Westminster's Cardinal Puff, with Sam Darling Up, Winning the Tradesman's Plate, Chester (1839), Yale Center for British Art, New Haven. Seguem-se The Liverpool and National Steeplechase at Aintree, 1843 (1843) e National Defense (1921).
Nosso catálogo lista 3 obras de William Tasker, datadas de 1839 a 1921.
A maioria deles está em Yale Center for British Art (New Haven) e Metropolitan Museum of Art (Nova York). A tabela acima lista os museus um a um.
A obra mais antiga nesta página é de Lord Westminster's Cardinal Puff, with Sam Darling Up, Winning the Tradesman's Plate, Chester (1839), e a mais recente é de National Defense (1921).
Lord Westminster's Cardinal Puff, with Sam Darling Up, Winning the Tradesman's Plate, Chester e The Liverpool and National Steeplechase at Aintree, 1843 estão entre as 2 obras nesta página pertencentes ao Yale Center for British Art, New Haven.
Born in New York City, William Tasker spent his life observing the way light settles upon the land. His brushwork followed the shifts of the Impressionist movement, focusing on the fleeting qualities of color and the atmosphere of the American landscape. He did not merely paint scenes; he captured the way light moves through a space, often working with oil on canvas to build texture and depth. His hands were accustomed to the quiet work of capturing the ephemeral, turning a specific moment in time into a permanent record of light and shadow.
His career was marked by a steady presence in the American art scene. He was part of a generation that helped bring new ways of seeing to the United States, participating in significant exhibitions that changed how people viewed local scenery. His work moved through the galleries of his time, finding its way into permanent collections where his specific handling of color remains visible.
Tasker’s work captures the energy of specific moments, often focusing on the relationship between a subject and its surroundings. His paintings move between the quietude of the landscape and the structured motion of life. His oil on canvas works include:
In National Defense, there is a sense of weight and purpose. The paint carries a certain gravity, moving away from purely decorative scenes toward something more substantial. He had a way of grounding his subjects within a tangible reality, using color and light to define the space they occupy. His presence in the 1913 Armory Show helped bring these Impressionist sensibilities to a wider American audience.
By the time of his death in 1933, Tasker had left behind a body of work that speaks to the evolution of American painting. His involvement in the Armory Show of 1913 placed him at the center of a major shift in artistic thought. He was there when the old ways of seeing were being challenged by new, more experimental approaches. His paintings remain in places like the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where the brushstrokes still hold the light he once sought to capture. He remains a figure of the Impressionist movement, remembered for how he translated the atmosphere of his surroundings onto the canvas.