Albert Tucker (artist)

Albert Tucker
Albert Tucker in 1940
Born
Albert Lee Tucker

(1914-12-29)29 December 1914
Melbourne, Australia
Died23 October 1999(1999-10-23) (aged 84)
Melbourne, Australia
NationalityAustralian
Educationself taught
Known forPainting
MovementExpressionism, Heide Circle, Angry Penguins
Patron(s)John and Sunday Reed

Albert Lee Tucker (29 December 1914 – 23 October 1999)[1][2] was an Australian artist and member of the Heide Circle, a group of modernist artists and writers associated with Heide, the Melbourne home of art patrons John and Sunday Reed.[3] Along with Heide Circle members such as Sidney Nolan and Arthur Boyd, Tucker became associated with the Angry Penguins art movement, named after a publication founded by poet Max Harris and published by the Reeds.

  1. ^ Burke, Janine, Portrait of Albert Tucker, 1914–1960, PhD thesis, School of Contemporary Arts, Deakin University
  2. ^ Janine Burke, Australian Gothic: A Life of Albert Tucker, Knopf, Sydney, Australia, 2002.
  3. ^ Heide MoMA 2012 Making History Archived 12 April 2013 at the Wayback Machine

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