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	Albert Tucker (artist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Albert Tucker (December 29, 1914- October 23, 1999) was an Australian artist, pivotal in the development of 20th century Australian Expressionist painting.
		Tucker is known as a member of the so-called "Heide Circle", a group of leading modern artists and writers that centred on the art patrons John Reed and Sunday Reed, whose home, "Heide", located in Bulleen, near Heidelberg (outside Melbourne) was a haven for the group, and is now a museum of modern Australian art.
		The series saw Tucker move away from his most celebrated themes, and to variations of the Antipodean Head, a representation of an explorer’s conflict with the environment that eventually fuses the two together to become of the same element, as both the landscape and the heads were created using the same medium, texture and colour.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Albert_Tucker_(artist) (1946 words)

	Obituary: Albert Tucker (1914-1999) Artist of a turbulent epoch dies
		These artists and their unsettling depictions of the anguish of the most oppressed elements of Australian society had a strong impact on Tucker, who soon began to investigate and reproduce in artistic form the trauma, insecurity and anxiety produced by the Depression and the war.
		Tucker's determination to artistically investigate the physical horrors and distorted social relations produced by the war was anathema to the CPA and its promotion of the war effort.
		In 1995 Tucker told a journalist that the anguished despair that always recurred in his paintings was connected to his attempt to understand the concept of freedom.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2000/jan2000/tuck-j08.shtml (1215 words)

	Australian art
		City Image 2 is one of a number of Albert Tucker's paintings that indicate his continued interest in iconography and themes that pre-occupied the artist in the post-war period.
		Tucker was active in art politics, writing seminal articles and an active Council Member and President of the Contemporary Art Society in the late 1940s and again in the 1960s.
		Tucker was a frequent visitor to Heide before he moved to Europe in 1947 and was central to the development of modern art in Australia.
	www.dcita.gov.au /cgp/ausartpages/ausart21.html (117 words)

	Art Interview - Albert Tucker (1914 - 1999)
		As an artist who was described to have “not dealt in prettiness, but unsettling truths”, the often difficult and confronting work of Albert Tucker represented an overtly political nature, a frustration with the morality of society and a reactive response to his surrounding environment.
		Tucker was discharged from the army in 1942 and returned to Melbourne with a strong distaste for what his home city had become.
		Tucker’s Kelly gang works and his Explorers series, with their harsh colours and distorted features act as a strong example of this, showing a completely inhospitable environment.
	www.artinterview.com.au /artist-biographies/albert-tucker (1773 words)

	Tribute: Albert Tucker
		Tucker, was born in 1914 to a family who were not wealthy, and were hit particularly hard hit the depression.
		Tucker’s style of painting was greatly influenced by Russian expatriate artist, Danilla Vassilieff who painted working class people in the streets of the city and Fitzroy.
		Tucker was appalled at the depravity of the time, particularly the teenage prostitutes on the Tucker’s most famous series of work is Images of Modern Evil, painted while living in St.Kilda, during the war.
	sunday.ninemsn.com.au /sunday/art_profiles/article_633.asp?s=1 (540 words)

	Albert Tucker Profile
		Tucker's art dealer and friend said of one series of his works, that he dealt not in prettiness, but unsettling truths.
		Often difficult and abrasive, the work reflects the artists struggle to come to terms with a society he was at odds with, with whom he did not share a moral ground.
		Tucker left school in 1929 at 14 years of age, wining a scholarship to a commercial art school, which provided his income through the depression.
	www.theblurb.com.au /Issue03/TuckerBio.htm (599 words)

	Sophie Tucker - Music Downloads - Online
		Tucker was born Sonia Kalish on January 13, 1884, as her Jewish parents were fleeing Russia for Poland and, by the time Sophie was three, the United States; the family took the last name Abuza as a cover during their flight.
		Tucker's fame gradually diminished over the years; aside from occasional motion picture and television appearances, she spent most of her time performing in nightclubs, preferring the more intimate atmosphere and audience interaction.
		Tucker devoted much of her income to various charities and frequently performed at benefit concerts.
	musicstore.connect.com /artist/103/567/0/1035670.html (490 words)

	Faculty of Fine Arts News: Internationally Renowned Sculptor William Tucker Artist-in-Residence at York University
		Tucker’s residency was organized by visual arts professor Brandon Vickerd, who has long been an admirer of his work and his integrated approach to making and teaching art.
		Tucker’s contributions during his residency at York are not limited to his collaborative work in the studio setting.
		William Tucker’s artist-in-residency is made possible through the generous support of Louis L. Odette, the founder of the Toronto Sculpture Garden and a longstanding friend of York University’s Faculty of Fine Arts.
	www.yorku.ca /finearts/news/tucker.htm (794 words)

	Albert Tucker - Information
		In 1940 Tucker was called up for army service and spent some months working as a draftsman at the Heidelberg Military Hospital, where he also drew patients suffering from dreadful wounds or mental illnesses produced by the war.
		Throughout his 70-year artistic career, Tucker constantly demanded of himself and all those who had the opportunity to study his work that they look beyond the prevailing social conventions and attempt to find, via an investigation of the darker side of humanity's inner soul, the moral and psychological foundations for a more humane society.
		Tucker admits, in a letter to "Sid", that he thought "Pablo" might be a "hard bugger to beat", and how he was bored with Matisse, admitting that "only one of his canvases satisfied" him.
	www.evabreuerartdealer.com.au /cv/tucker_albert_info.html (3195 words)

	Angry Penguin painters - Stories from Australia's Culture and Recreation Portal
		Sidney Nolan is held by many to be Australia's most internationally famous artist and is referred to as one of the major artists of the twentieth century in Western art.
		Albert Tucker (1914 - 1999) is considered to be a key figure in modern Australian art although many people find his works unsettling.
		At the age of 27 she was diagnosed with Hodgkins disease and subsequently left Tucker, and embarked on a relationship with the artist Gray Smith.
	www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au /articles/arthurboyd (1459 words)

	Albert Tucker: The accidental historian
		In 1939 when artist Albert Tucker was nearly 25, he bought his first camera.
		He married fellow artist Joy Hester along the way, and he was paid a stipend by the wealthy John and Sunday Reed from Heide.
		Tucker was also an important part of the revolutionary Contemporary Arts Society and the Angry Penguins.
	sunday.ninemsn.com.au /sunday/art_profiles/article_612.asp?... (541 words)

	CD Baby: ALBERT CALVO: Second Thoughts
		Guitarist and composer Albert Calvo began his music career at the age of seven and very soon was playing the popular songs of the day.
		Albert then became artist in residence for the North Queensland Arts Company and began to turn his interest to jazz music.
		Albert has a very mellow touch on electric guitar - compare him to Chieli Minucci maybe - and his sound works perfectly on the bright opener Late Last Nite.
	www.cdbaby.com /albertcalvo03 (987 words)

	Tucker, Albert Lee
		One of Australia’s greatest artists, Tucker was born on 29 December 1914 at 90 Francis Street, Yarraville, the youngest of three children to John Tucker a railway worker and Clara née Davis; his paternal grandfather Albert Edwin Tucker (Melbourne General Cemetery) was a politician and prominent Fitzroy identity.
		In 1941, he married fellow artist Joy Hester (Box Hill Cemetery) (“sunny, casual and extrovert”); his self-absorption and obsession with Hester during the ten years they were together would both inspire Tucker’s art to a new level and leave an emotional labyrinth of feelings in which his art would never fully recover from.
		Hester’s sudden departure in 1947 left Tucker (“a man whom she respected but was not in love with”) with a yearning to get away from Australia; he spent the next thirteen years in Europe and America but financial success continued to elude him.
	www.brightoncemetery.com /HistoricInterments/150Names/tuckera.htm (365 words)

	House ( dewitt houses ) Music digest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		It is, perhaps, a measure of her resolve to carry out her late husband's wishes, and also of her respect for Heide and its staff, that the bequest, estimated to be worth $10million, went ahead.
		The new study wing next to the Tucker Gallery is intended for scholars as a place to learn more about the artist, his influences and the circles in which he moved.
		Of her 35-year marriage to the artist, Barbara says: "I have had some very passionate affairs in my life and the most memorable relationship I ever had was with Bert.
	house.musicstyles.org (1699 words)

	The Australian: Postcards from the edge [ 28oct06 ] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		These letters and postcards, kept by the artists and later by their families, were crucial links between two prolific travellers who shared a painter's perspective.
		Tucker's wife, artist Joy Hester, was a friend of Sunday and brought her husband into the circle.
		Tucker and Nolan had arrived at a greater clarity about their home country, its landscape and its people.
	www.theaustralian.news.com.au /printpage/0,5942,20637031,00.html (2128 words)

	The Space Visual Arts: Albert Tucker: Pictures from Life
		Albert Tucker, who died in 2000, is generally considered one of the most important Australian painters of the 20th century.
		He captures the relationships, the love, the pain and the jealousies surrounding a group of people who were the key players in one of Australia's most significant avant-garde art movements.
		Well in the general sense, the artist was a weirdo.
	www.abc.net.au /arts/visual/stories/s424393.htm (5393 words)

	Tucker gift of artworks goes to Heide after artist's change of heart
		SUCH was his antagonism towards his patrons at the Heide Museum of Modern Art, Albert Tucker had planned to give an extensive collection of artworks by himself and others to the National Gallery of Victoria.
		Tucker's widow, Barbara, said he had recognised the important role the Reeds had played in his career and the "gift" was "like the closing of a circle and honouring them all".
		Mr McCaughey writes that he had understood neither the depth of the artist's antipathy to the Reeds nor the reasons for it until he was asked to edit the correspondence.
	www.theage.com.au /news/entertainment/tucker-gift-of-artworks-goes-to-heide-after-artists-change-ofheart/2006/07/14/1152637871199.html (651 words)

	National Centre for History Education - Commonwealth History Project :: Cities Behaving Badly
		For Tucker, who was suspicious of reason and science, the history of the past three centuries was a tale of scientific and material achievement having occurred at the expense of spiritual and community values.
		Tucker was transferred to the Facial Reconstruction Unit at the Heidelberg Military Hospital as a reprieve.
		In her recent biography on Tucker, the art historian Janine Burke recalls Tucker telling her in 1999 that he had "a rather nasty close-up of what happened to a lot of these characters".
	www.hyperhistory.org /index.php?option=displaypage&Itemid=576&op=page (4507 words)

	Postcards from the edge \| Arts & Books \| The Australian
		Tucker was three years older than Nolan and during the '40s both produced a substantial series that McCaughey says "laid the foundations of modern Australian art".
		Tucker served in the army during World WarII and made a trip to Japan in 1947.
		Nolan to Tucker in November 1947: "I am still in the north and feeling perhaps that a large part of the energy of Australia is contained here (Queensland).
	www.theaustralian.news.com.au /story/0,20867,20637031-16947,00.html (2179 words)

	Verbatim - 3 July 1999 - Albert Tucker
		In February 1947, Australian artist Albert Tucker travelled through war ravaged Japan, documenting - with a camera and his sketch pad - the devastation of the allied air attacks upon the country.
		Tucker visited Hiroshima, and photographed the remains of the city in the wake of the atomic bomb.
		Some of the images that he witnessed during his time in Japan and also Europe would later re-emerge in several of Albert Tucker's best known works of art.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/verbatim/stories/1999/34684.htm (77 words)

	Arts Victoria - News - Media Releases
		"Mrs Tucker is fulfilling both her late husband's and her own commitment to donate the bulk of the artist's private collection to Heide's collection," Mr Bracks said.
		"Albert Tucker was one of Australia's most influential artists and a key member of the Heide salon of the 1940s that included Sidney Nolan, Arthur Boyd and Joy Hester and their patrons, Sunday and John Reed."
		The life benefactors are: Barbara Tucker, Loti and Victor Smorgon, Craig and Connie Kimberley, Tony and Cathie Hancy, Baillieu and Sarah Myer and Sunday and John Reed, Heide's founders.
	www.arts.vic.gov.au /arts/news/media/31HeideExpansion.htm (365 words)

	Albert Tucker - Biographical Information
		Albert Tucker is one of Australia's most influential artists.
		Born in Melbourne in 1914, he has worked as a house painter, commercial illustrator, cartoonist and professional artist.
		Influenced by the poetry of T.S. Eliot, surrealism and German Expressionism, Tucker explored the human condition through his art.
	www.australianbiography.gov.au /tucker/bio.html (135 words)

	Albert Tuckers Paintings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		These chaotic paintings indicate the work of an artist that is emotionally stunted or in turmoil.
		- Albert Tucker one of Australias great modernist painters died in Melbourne over the weekend He was the last link with the explosion of creativity that...
		Junk for Code: surrealism in Australia - tucker1.jpg Victory Girls by Albert Tucker is part of the series called Images of Modern...
	paintingsinfo.com /albert-tuckers-paintings.html (692 words)

	Albert Tucker - Australian Biography
		Albert Tucker was born in Melbourne in 1914.
		In 1947 he travelled to Japan where he saw the devastation of Hiroshima - it was an experience that would have a profound effect on his work.
		Tucker spent 13 years in Europe and his international career finally took off when the Guggenheim Museum purchased some of his work and the Museum of Modern Art in New York mounted an exhibition.
	www.australianbiography.gov.au /tucker (113 words)

	TIME Pacific \| Love and Pain \| September 10, 2001 \| NO. 36
		Then in 1947, Hester ran off with artist Gray Smith, gave up her son Sweeney for adoption, and was diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease.
		To be launched this week by former colleague Mirka Mora, the National Gallery of Australia's "Joy Hester and Friends" seeks to reposition Hester at the center of two artistic movements, the social-realist Angry Penguins of the 1940s, and the figurative Antipodeans of the 1950s.
		She wasn't interested in the cities and streets and dark moral clouds that hovered in Tucker's Images of Modern Evil series, but instead zeroed in on the human face.
	www.time.com /time/pacific/magazine/20010910/arts.html (985 words)

	Artist gives us a piece of his mind - Arts - www.theage.com.au (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Surrealist James Gleeson with his confronting Portrait of the Artist in an Evolving Landscape, one of the works in his NGV retrospective.
		Sidney Nolan, Russell Drysdale, Arthur Boyd and Albert Tucker are acclaimed for their part in transforming Australian art, but another artist from that heroic period is still alive and painting.
		The first major retrospective of Gleeson's career, which opened last night at the Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, begins with a giant diptych so recent that the paint barely dried in time for it to be included in the show.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2004/10/28/1098667907821.html (421 words)

	Philip Bacon Galleries
		Through Tucker, becomes acquainted with Max Doerner’s The Materials of the Artist and their Use in Painting (first English edition, 1943) and begins to use ICI chemical paints are obtained from Bligh’s Colourworks in Melbourne, a firm long patronised by Merric Boyd.
		Tucker also demonstrates to him the technique of putting muslin on to thick, heavy cardboard, again from Doerner; for several years, these supports are prepared for Boyd by Perceval.
		One of twelve artists invited by Kelvinator to decorate refrigerators which are exhibited in Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne and Adelaide (Art in Everyday Life); chooses as his subject a version of Leda and the swan.
	www.philipbacongalleries.com /artists/ArthurBoyd/notes.html (7256 words)

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