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Title

Thames

1957

Artist

Albert Tucker

Australia

29 Dec 1914 – 23 Oct 1999

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  • Details

    Other Titles
    Thames at Greenwich
    Thames I
    Date
    1957
    Media category
    Painting
    Materials used
    polyvinyl acetate, cardboard, hessian and sand on hardboard
    Dimensions
    66.4 x 128.8 cm sight; 77.5 x 140.0 x 3.8 cm frame
    Signature & date

    Signed and dated l.l. corner, brown synthetic polymer paint "Tucker 1957".

    Credit
    Gift of the Albert & Barbara Tucker Foundation 2017
    Location
    Not on display
    Accession number
    197.2017
    Copyright
    © Albert & Barbara Tucker Foundation. Courtesy of Smith & Singer Fine Art

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    Albert Tucker

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    Works in the collection

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  • About

    Albert Tucker, one of Australia’s most important post-war artists, helped reinvigorate and re-mythologise the Australian landscape through his modernist approach. Along with Sidney Nolan, Joy Hester, John Perceval and Arthur Boyd, he was part of the group of artists active at Heide, near Melbourne, in the 1940s and enjoyed the patronage of John and Sunday Reed. Tucker left Australia in 1947 and spent the next thirteen years travelling and painitng in Japan, England, Europe and the United States.

    ‘Thames’ is part of a series of paintings and drawings stemming from Tucker’s time in London and the Turner-like abstract influence on his depictions of the river Thames at the time.

  • Exhibition history

    Shown in 5 exhibitions

  • Bibliography

    Referenced in 9 publications

    • Bonython Art Gallery [Sydney], Albert Tucker, Sydney, 1969. cat.no. 63; titled 'Thames I'

    • Edmund Capon AM, OBE, Foundation Newsletter #8, Sydney, Jun 2006. not paginated.

    • Gavin Fry, Albert Tucker, Sydney, 2006, 126 (colour illus.). titled 'Thames at Greenwich'

    • James Mollison and Jan Minchin, Albert Tucker: a retrospective, Melbourne, 1990, 54 (illus.). titled 'Thames'

    • Barry Pearce, Look, 'Albert Tucker: A chance for Sydney to get to know a Melbourne artist better', pg. 12, Sydney, Mar 2007, 12.

    • John Reed, Albert Tucker, Melbourne, 1960. possibly cat.no. 29; titled 'Thames at Greenwich'; priced 450 gns

    • Albert Tucker, Richard Haese and Tolarno Galleries, Albert Tucker: paintings 1945-1960, Melbourne, 1982, (colour illus.). not paginated; cat.no. 54

    • Christopher Uhl, Albert Tucker, 'The Refugee', pg. 47-77, Melbourne, 1969, 68, 69 (colour illus.), 100. cat.no. 10.22; plate no. 24; titled 'Thames I'

    • Peter Ward., The Weekend Australian, 'The power and pain of a prodigal son', Sydney, 27 Feb 1982-28 Feb 1982.

Other works by Albert Tucker

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