Tony Tuckson (1921-1973)

Tony Tuckson was a painter, curator and gallery administrator. He studied at East Sydney Technical College with Balson and Crowley. Tuckson's paintings are a story of a personal journey, his life being almost one of dual careers – as artist and as curator at the AGNSW from 1950 to 1973. His early figurative works of the 1950s depict scenes from his everyday life - portraits of his wife and child, interior and still life paintings, reminiscent of Picasso, and see through the eyes of Sydney's modernist school. In 1958, as curator, he began the collection of the AGNSW’s ethnic collection and his contact with aboriginal art animated and accelerated the shift in his art towards the painterly abstraction of which he became a leading exponent. His works of the 1960s showed a profound liberation of form, colour and brush work; rapid calligraphic mark-making, incised texture, collage elements – all were explored and led to the last group of large scale gestural paintings of the 1970s which are arguably his finest in their space, scale and authority.

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