William Tucker

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William Tucker (right) with Rafael Jablonka in the Böhm Chapel
William Tucker, Maia, 2002, in Muelle de Evaristo Churruca in Bilbao

William Tucker (born February 28, 1935 in Cairo , Egypt ; lives and works in New York City , USA ) is a British sculptor (with US citizenship since 1985) . He is considered an important representative of abstract sculpture .

life and work

William G. Tucker was born in Cairo, Egypt to English parents. In 1937 his family returned to England, where Tucker grew up.

From 1955 to 1958 he studied history at the University of Oxford . He continued his studies at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London, where Anthony Caro taught. He himself taught in later years at Goldsmiths College London and at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design.

In the 1970s, Tucker was one of the influential circle of English sculptors such as Philip King or Tim Scott, who were presented as 'New Generation' in the exhibition of the same name at the Whitechapel Art Gallery London in 1965 and were decisive impulses for the development of abstract sculpture and its expansion of the concept of sculpture. William Tucker was invited to the groundbreaking exhibition 'Primary Structures' in the Jewish Museum in New York in 1966, the decisive moment for American Minimal Art. In 1968 he participated in the 4th documenta in Kassel with six sculptures made of fiberglass and polyester. During this time he was also known as a theorist, critic and exhibition maker. Tucker published 'The Language of Sculpture' in 1972 and published reviews and essays in Studio International, the English counterpart to ARTFORUM. In 1975 he organized 'The Condition of Sculpture' at the Hayward Gallery in London.

He moved to New York in 1978 and taught drawing , painting, and sculpture at Columbia University and New York Studio School . He was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship for Sculpture in 1981 and the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 1986. Tucker became a US citizen in 1985.

In 2011 William Tucker was elected a member ( NA ) of the National Academy of Design .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Nationalacademy.org: Living Academicians "T" / Tucker, William, NA 2011 ( Memento April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed July 17, 2015)

Literature and Sources

  • Sculpture in the Open Air, Greater London Council: Battersea Park, London, 1966.
  • Guggenheim International Exhibition 1967: Sculpture from Twenty Nations, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1967.
  • William Tucker, British Pavilion XXXVI Venice Biennale, 1972.
  • The Condition of Sculpture: A Selection of Recent Sculpture by Younger British and Foreign Artists, HaywardGallery Arts, Council of Great Britain, London, 1972.
  • William Tucker, Sculptures, Arts Council of Great Britain, London, 1977-1978.
  • The Prospect Mountain Show: An Homage to David Smith, Lake George Arts Project, Lake George, New York, 1979.
  • Sculpture in the 20th century, Wenkenpark Riehen, Basel, 1980.
  • Il Luogo della Forma: Nove Scultoi a Castelvecchio, Museo di Castelvecchio, Verona, 1981.
  • John Elderfield, New Work on Paper I, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1981.
  • Sandy Nairne & Nicholas Serota (Eds.): British Sculpture in the Twentieth Century, Whitechapel Art Gallery , London, 1981.
  • Judith K. Collischan van Wagner, Monumental Drawings by Sculptors, Hillwood Art Gallery, LongIsland University, Greenvale, NY, 1983.
  • Artists Choose Artists II, CDS Gallery, New York, 1983.
  • Judith K. Collischan van Wagner, Reflections: New Conceptions of Nature, Hillwood Art Gallery, LongIsland University, Greenvale, NY, 1984.
  • Frank Gettings, Drawings 1974–84, Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, 1984.
  • John McEwen, Sculptors' Drawings, The British Council, London 1984.
  • The Seventh Dalhousie Drawing Exhibition: Actual Size, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NovaScotia, Canada, 1984.
  • Dore Ashton, American Art Since 1945, Oxford University Press, New York, 1985.
  • Daniel Wheeler, Art Since Mid Century 1945 to the Present, The Vendome Press, New York, 1991.
  • Sam Hunter & John Jacobus, Modern Art, Third Edition, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 1993, page 337.
  • Irving Sandler, Art of the Postmodern Era: from the late 1960s to the Early 1990s, HarperCollins Publishers, 1996.
  • Tony Birks, The Alchemy of Sculpture, Marston House, 1998.
  • Brooke Barrie, Contemporary Outdoor Sculpture, Rockport Publishers, Gloucester, MA, 1999, pages 152-153.
  • Michael Auping, House of Sculpture, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX, 1999, page 12, illustrated page 6.
  • Alan Windsor, British Sculptors of the Twentieth Century, Ashgate Publishing Limited, Aldershot, England, 2003.
  • The Sculptural Idea, James J. Kelly, Fourth Edition, Waveland Press, Inc., Long Grove, Illinois, 2004.
  • A Vision for 21st Century Sculpture, 10 year anniversary book, Sculpture at Goodwood, West Sussex, 2004.
  • Sculpture from the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, edited by Karen O. Janovy, University of Nebraska Press, 2005, pages 185-187.
  • Joy Sleeman, The Sculpture of William Tucker, Lund Humphries, England, 2007.
  • Marzio, Peter C. Masterpieces From The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: Director's Choice. Yale University Press, NewHaven and London, 2009. Illustrated in color, p.189
  • William Tucker, Sculpture Park Waldfrieden, Wuppertal, 2013

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Tucker, William
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tucker, William G.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British-American sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Cairo , Egypt