Guests: Paul Hayes Tucker RSS

1995:

  1. An interview with Paul Hayes Tucker
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Paul Hayes Tucker is professor of art at the University of Massachusetts, Boston where he has taught since 1978. Tucker is also the founder and first director of Arts on the Point. Hailed by “Time” Magazine as one of the world’s foremost authorities on Claude Monet and America’s leading Impressionist scholar, Professor Tucker has recently been named Chairman of the Board of the Terra Foundation for the Arts, the nation’s premier philanthropic organization for the propagation of American art here and abroad.

Tucker has served on the faculties of the Institute of Fine Arts and Williams College, and has been honored with many awards and grants, including the Chancellor’s Award for Distinguished Scholarship, UMass Boston, the Governor’s Award, Yale University Press, and grants from the Florence Gould Arts Foundation. Tucker’s many publications include “Monet In the 20th Century” (1999), “Manet’s ?Le Déjeuner sur l’hérbe?” (1998), “Claude Monet: Life and Art” (1995) and “Richard Upton and the Rhetoric of Landscape” (1991). He was curator of Monet, A Retrospective at the Bridgestone Museum, the Nagoya City Art Museum, and the Hiroshima Museum of Art in 1995, and Monet in the ‘90s: The Series Paintings which was held in 1990 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Royal Academy of Arts, London.

Source - Arts on the Point http://www.artsonthepoint.com/people/paultucker.html