Albert Lee Tucker (1914 - 1999)

Born 29 Dec 1914 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Husband of Joy St. Clair (Hester) Smith — married 1 Jan 1941 (to 14 Apr 1959) in All Saints Church, Greensborough, Victoria, Australia.

Died 23 Oct 1999 at age 84 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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Biography

Albert Lee Tucker ^[1] (29 Dec 1914 – 23 Oct 1999), was an Australian artist, and member of the Heide Circle, a group of modernist artists and writers that centred on the art patrons John Harford Reed and Sunday Reed, whose home, "Heide", located in Bulleen, near Heidelberg (outside Melbourne), was a haven for the group.

Tucker left school at 14 to help support his family and had no formal art training, but obtained work as a house painter, cartoonist and commercial illustrator, in an advertising agency before joining the commercial artist John Vickery. For seven years he attended the Victorian Artists' Society evening life drawing class three nights a week. . . . . more . . Wikipedia®

• Heide Museum of Modern Art
• The National Gallery of Victoria
• Art Gallery of NSW, profile: Albert Tucker

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• World War Two Service Veteran Details
• Design & Art Australia Online

• Obituary: Albert Tucker (1914-1999)