Albert Tucker
(Australia 29 Dec 1914–23 Oct 1999)
- Title
- recto: Theatre verso: Study for 'The hanged man'
- Other titles:
- former verso: The Hanged man
- Year
- 1943
- Media category
- Watercolour
- Materials used
- black ink, watercolour, gouache on cream wove paper
- Dimensions
-
26.3 x 37.7cm sheet
- Signature & date
- Signed and dated u.r., blue gouache "Tucker Sept 1943".
- Credit
- Purchased 1990
- Accession number
- 451.1990
- Copyright
- © Barbara Tucker
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
Most of Albert Tucker's drawings are closely linked to paintings and it is partly because of this relationship that they are made using the most painterly of media - watercolour, gouache and pastel. Tucker's grim vision of city life in Australia during the Second World War is forcefully expressed in this vigorous and expressive work.
Australian Art Department, AGNSW, 2000
- Bibliography (5)
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Lesley Harding (Australia) (Author), 1940s Melbourne: Photographs by Albert Tucker, Victoria, 2009, 26 (colour illus.).
Barry Pearce (Australia) (Author), Australian art: in the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Domain, 2000, 178 (colour illus.), 302.
Hendrik Kolenberg (Netherlands; Australia) (Author), Australian watercolours 1880s to 1990s, Sydney, 1995, cover (colour illus.), 13, 72 (colour illus.), 121. cat.no. 61; The colour illustration appearing on the cover is a detail of the image.
Hendrik Kolenberg (Netherlands; Australia) (Author), Everyday life: prints drawings and watercolours from the collections of Australian and European art, Sydney, 1994. cat.no. 84
Savill Galleries [Sydney] (Australia) (Editor), Lauraine Diggins (Australia, b.1946) (Author), Albert Tucker; the mythologies and images, Sydney, 1990, 17 (colour illus.). cat.no. 11
- Exhibition history (10)
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Albert Tucker; the mythologies and images, Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, 26 Jun 1990–13 Jul 1990.
Albert Tucker; the mythologies and images, Savill Galleries [Sydney], 01 Aug 1990–18 Aug 1990.
Everyday Life, prints, drawings and watercolours from the collections of Australian and European Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 01 Oct 1994–27 Nov 1994.
Everyday Life, prints, drawings and watercolours from the collections of Australian and European Art, Goulburn Regional Art Gallery, 04 Mar 1995–01 Apr 1995.
Everyday Life, prints, drawings and watercolours from the collections of Australian and European Art, Griffith Regional Art Gallery, 03 May 1995–03 Jun 1995.
Everyday Life, prints, drawings and watercolours from the collections of Australian and European Art, Wagga Wagga City Art Gallery, 22 Jun 1995–30 Jul 1995.
Australian watercolours 1880s to 1990s, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 18 Nov 1995–14 Jan 1996.
Australian watercolours 1880s to 1990s, City of Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, 1996–1996.
Australian watercolours 1880s to 1990s, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 1996–1996.
Albert Tucker: promised gifts from the Estate, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 17 Jan 2007–11 Mar 2007.
