The Tucker portraits
National Exhibition Register
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Albert TUCKER In the mirror: self portrait with Joy Hester, 26 Little Collins Street, Melbourne , 1939
- Medium
- chromogenic print
- Dimensions
- 15.0 x 14.0 cm
- Image Credit
- courtesy Albert and Barbara Tucker Foundation
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Installation view, The Tucker portraits, Monash Gallery of Art, 2019
- Image Credit
- Monash Gallery of Art and Albert and Barbara Tucker Foundation
About the exhibition
Albert Tucker (1914–99) is one of Australia’s most well-known and renowned artists, and a key exponent of Australian modernism. He was primarily a figurative painter who critically responded to the world around him. In 1939 Tucker acquired his first camera. From that moment on he began documenting his life and the people and places that meant so much to him. His archive of photographs range from studies of people that he used as source material for his paintings through to incredibly rare and intimate portraits of his family and friends who today are recognised as leading protagonists in Australian modernism and the Heide circle. The Tucker portraits explores how Tucker used photography within his practice – from inspiration and source material for his paintings through to capturing unique and intimate documents that explore the social, cultural and political life in Australia.
Artists and Curator
- Curator
- Anouska Phizacklea
- Artists
Albert Tucker
Available Dates and
Exhibition Details
- Available dates
- 01/02/2023 - 01/02/2027
- Exhibition size
- Between 50-75 sq or running metres
- Originating state
- VIC
- Organised by
- Monash Gallery of Art
- Price
- $5,000 (inc. freight)
- Web Site
- https://www.mga.org.au/exhibition/view/exhibition/281
- Primary contact
- Katie Tremschnig
- Position
- Gallery Registrar
- Organisation
- Monash Gallery of Art
- Phone
- +61358440500
- Katie.Tremschnig@monash.vic.gov.au
- Secondary contact
- Anouska Phizacklea
- Phone
- +61358440500
- mga@monash.vic.gov.au
- Acknowledgement
- courtesy Albert and Barbara Tucker Foundation