The artist C.R. Tucker (1868-1956) smiles back at the viewer while reading from a favorite dining room chair, taken around the same time he and wife Mary and first-born Dorothy moved into their modern Staten Island concrete home in 1906. Charles Rollins Tucker’s life was a series of wanderings- a game of musical chairs in which he wore many hats, made many friends, taught many children, and fortunately for us, made a photographic record throughout. A description in his 1956 obituary seems appropriate with this photograph of the artist, in the sense he would pass on much later in one of those chairs, albeit figuratively, something his known demeanor of “lovableness and gentle humor” may have allowed him the chance to wink back at us from the future, as he “went to sleep in his chair, in his tiny little home” for the last time.

Charles Rollins Tucker, 1868-1956.

See our in-depth blog posts with links below: Revealed: C.R. Tucker: Restless Wanderer with a Camera, & Rescued: Dorothy Tucker: For the Love of a Daughter, to learn more.