William Tucker — Biography



1935 Born

 

1935        
Born in Cairo, Egypt (to English parents)

1937        
Family returns to England

1955-1958        
Studies at Oxford University, England

1959-1960        
Studies at Central School of Art and Design and at St. Martin's  School of Art, London

1962-1966        
Teaches at Goldsmith's College, London

1963-1974        
Teaches at St. Martin's School of Art, London

1968-1970        
Receives Gregory Fellowship in Sculpture, Leeds University

1976        
Teaches at University of West Ontario, Canada

1977        
Teaches at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Canada

1978-1992        
Teaches at New York Studio School of Painting and Sculpture, New York

1978-1982        
Teaches at Columbia University, New York

1980-1981        
Receives Guggenheim Fellowship

1986        
Becomes American Citizen
Receives National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship

1991        
Receives Sculpture Center Award for Distinction in Sculpture

1993        
Appointed Co-Chairman of the Art Department of Bard College

1995        
Receives Rodin-Moore Memorial Prize, Second Fujisankei Biennale Hakone Open-Air Museum, Japan

1996        
Receives commission for large-scale sculpture for Bilbao, Spain

1999        
Receives award from New York Studio School, New York
Lives in Massachusetts

ONE PERSON MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS
1969        
Leeds City Art Gallery (Gregory Fellow Exhibition)

1972    
XXXVI Venice Biennale, Italy

1973        
Hamburg Kunstverein, Museum Bochum, West Germany
Arts Council, Serpentine Gallery, London

1985    
Neuberger Museum, SUNY, Purchase, NY

1987    
Gods:  Five Recent Sculptures, Tate Gallery, London

1988    
William Tucker:  The American Decade 1978-1988, Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY, May 23 - October 31

1989        
William Tucker, The Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, FL

1992    
Williams Center for the Arts, Lafayette College Art Gallery, Easton, PA

1993        
Adelphi University Center Gallery, Garden City, Long Island, NY

1995        
Six Sculptures, Arts Council of Great Britain Collection exhibition traveled, organized by the South Bank Center

1999        
William Tucker:  Drawings and Sculpture, Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina

2000        
The Sleep of Reason, Bethel College, St. Paul, MN

2001        
William Tucker, Tate Gallery, Liverpool
William Tucker, Bothy Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, UK

2006-2007    
William Tucker: Horses, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA        

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1962        
Grabowski Gallery, London

1963        
Rowan Gallery, London

1965        
Richard Feigen Gallery, New York

Rowan Gallery, London

1966        
Kasmin Gallery, London

1968        
Robert Elkon Gallery, New York

1969        
Kasmin Gallery, London

1970        
Kasmin Gallery, London

1973        
Waddington Galleries, London

1974        
Hester Van Royen Gallery, London

1976        
Galerie Wintersberger, Cologne, West Germany

1977        
Robert Elkon Gallery, New York

1979        
Robert Elkon Gallery, New York

1980        
David Reids Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Robert Elkon Gallery, New York
Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

1981    
L'Isola Gallery, Rome, Italy

1982
Robert Elkon Gallery, New York
Bernard Jacobson Gallery, Los Angeles

1984        
David McKee Gallery, New York
L'Isola Gallery, Rome, Italy

1985        
Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, Santa Barbara
David McKee Gallery, New York

1987        
Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, Santa Barbara
Annely Juda Gallery, London
David McKee Gallery, New York

1989        
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco
David McKee Gallery, New York

1991        
David McKee Gallery, New York

1992        
New Drawings, McKee Gallery, New York

1993        
"Artist in Residence," Amherst College, Amherst, MA
The Philosophers, Sculpture and Drawings 1989-1992, Maak Gallery, London

1994        
McKee Gallery, New York

1995        
McKee Gallery, New York

1996        
McKee Gallery, New York

1999        
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco
McKee Gallery, New York

2000        
The Sleep of Reason, The Olson Gallery, Bethal College, St. Paul, MN

2001        
The Sleep of Reason, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2002        
William Tucker: Drawings, New York Studio School, New York
William Tucker on State Street, Santa Barbara’s State of the Art Gallery Installation, 800-1200 Blocks of State Street, Santa Barbara, CA, exhibition brochure
William Tucker: New Sculpture, McKee Gallery, New York

2003        
Drawings by William Tucker, Arts on the Point, Healey Library Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Boston

2004        
William Tucker, Sculpture & Drawings, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA

2005            
William Tucker: Recent Sculpture, McKee Gallery, New York
William Tucker: Maia, Studies for the Sculpture in Bilbao, MacClaren Art Center, Barrie, Ontario, Canada

2006            
William Tucker: Drawings and Projects, Marist College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY

INSTALLATIONS
1972        
Peter Stuyvesant Sculpture Project, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England

1976        
"Angel," Livingston Development Corporation, Lanark, Scotland (permanent)

1980        
"The Rim," The Mall, Washington, D.C.

1982        
"The Promise," Grove Isle Sculpture Garden, Miami, FL (permanent)

1982-1983        
"Journey," Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, New York

1983        
"Victory," Doris C. Freedman Plaza, Fifth Avenue at 60th Street, New York

1984        
"Arc" & "Fear," Springs Mills Building at Citicorp Center, New York
"Guardian I," Saint Peter's Church at Citicorp Center, New York

1986        
"Rhea," Greenwich Plaza, Greenwich, CT (permanent)
"Gymnast II," The Museum of Modern Art, New York

1987        
"The Rim," Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO

1988-1991        
"The Rim," The Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, FL

1989        
"Okeanos," Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation, LaJolla (permanent)

1991        
"Prometheus," M. H. de Young Memorial Museum and California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Lincoln Park, (Permanently installed at Runnymede Sculpture Park, Menlo, CA)

1997        
"Vishnu," Neuberger Museum of Art Biennial Exhibition for Public Art, Neuberger Museum, SUNY Purchase, New York

1998        
"Frenhofer," Goodwood Sculpture Park, England
"Maja," Riverside Sculpture Park, Abandoibarra, Bilbao, Spain (permanent)

1999    
"Important Sculptors of the Late Twentieth Century," Stamford Sculpture Walk, Stamford, CT

2000    
"Rites of Spring 2000," LongHouse Reserve, East Hampton, NY

2001    
William Tucker, Pavilion and Bothy galleries, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, UK
Victory 1981, Parque de la Memoria, Buenos Aires, Argentina (permanent)

2006        
“Six Bronzes”, Ward Pound Ridge Reservation, Cross River, NY

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1960-1961        
26 Young Sculptors, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London

1961        
II Biennale de Paris, National Museum of Modern Art, Paris

1965        
New Generation 1965, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
London - The New Scene, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN

1966        
5e Internationale Beeldententoonstellig, Sonsbeek, Holland
Eight British Sculptors, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Primary Structures, The Jewish Museum, New York

1967    
Sculpture in the Open Air, London County Council, London
Guggenheim International Sculpture Exhibition, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

1968    
Documenta IV, Kassel, West Germany
Orpheus II, 1965 exhibition of British Artists, circulated by Museum of Modern Art
International Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Helsinki

1971        
British Painting and Sculpture, 1960-1961, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

1972    
British Sculptors, Royal Academy, London

1975        
New Acquisitions:  Drawings, The British Museum, London
The Condition of Sculpture, Hayward Gallery, London (curated by William Tucker)

1976    
The Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia
Arte Inglese Oggi, Milan

1979    
Contemporary Sculpture, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Prospect Mountain Sculpture Show:  An Homage to David Smith, Lake George, New York

1980        
International Sculpture Conference, Washington, D.C.
Contemporary British Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Drawings by Three Artists, Betty Cunningham Gallery, New York
New Work on Paper I, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Sculpture by Four:  Delap, Hall, Arnoldi, Tucker, Robert Elkon Gallery, New York

1981        
Recent Editions, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, Los Angeles
Il Luogo della Forma, Museo di Castelvecchio, Verona, Italy
Bronze, Patricia Hamilton Gallery, New York

1981-1982    
British Sculpture in the 20th Century, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London

1983        
Monumental Drawings by Sculptors, Hillwood Art Gallery, C.W. Post Center, Long Island University, Greenvale, NY
The Sculptural Line, Damon Brandt Gallery, New York
Artists Choose Artists II, CDS Gallery, New York
The Sculpture Show '83:  Selected New Work by 50 Sculptors, Hayward Serpentine Galleries, London

1984        
Varieties of Sculptural Ideas, Max Hutchinson Gallery, New York
Drawings 1974-1984, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Sculptors' Drawings, The British Council, London
The 7th Dalhousie Drawing Exhibition:  Actual Size, Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Seven Sculptors in America, 1 Penn Plaza, New York

1985        
Drawings, The New York Studio School, New York
Working in Brooklyn - Sculpture, Brooklyn Museum, New York

1985-1986    
Transformations in Sculpture:  Four Decades of American and European Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

1986        
Recent Acquisitions, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Entre el Objeto y la Imagen, Palacio de Velazquez, Madrid
Opening Exhibition, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, New York

1987        
New York Beijing:  22 American Artists / Works on Paper, Beijing Art Institute, China

1988
National Drawing Invitational, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas
From the Southern Cross:  A View of World Art c. 1940-1988, Australian Biennale, Art Gallery of New South Wales
National Drawing Invitational, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AK
Innovations in Sculpture, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
New York Beijing, Beijing Art Institute (traveling exhibition)
Drawings, Tomoko Liguori Gallery, New York

1990        
The Art of Drawing, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY

1991        
Steel and Wood, Philippe Staib Gallery, New York
Drawings, Procter Art Center, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York,
The New York Studio School, New York (curated by John Lees)
ArtPark, The Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, FL
Ruth Hardinger, Lee Tribe, William Tucker, Yuriko Yamaguchi, Phillippe Staib Gallery, New York
Art for the Land (benefit for the Columbia Land Conservancy), Five Points Gallery, East Chatham, NY
Small-scale Sculpture, Sewall Art Gallery, Rice University, Houston, Texas

1992        
Panicali Fine Art, NY
Ancient Sources:  Contemporary Forms, Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA

1992-1993        
28th Annual Exhibition of Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC

1993        
Hyper Cathexis:  Layers of Experience, Stux Gallery, New York
Small Works Sculpture Show, Robert Morrison Gallery, New York

1994        
American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting & Sculpture, The American Academy of Arts and Letters, NY
Art Partners, Gallery at Park West, Kingston, NY
The Essential Gesture, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA

1995        
Twentieth Century American Scultpure at The White House, First Ladies’ Garden, The White House, Washington, D.C.
Critical Mass, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT:  traveled to The MAC,Dallas, TX
Body as Metaphor, Proctor Art Center, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Sculpture Space:  Celebrating 20 Years, Munson-Willams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY
Contemporary British Sculpture:  From Henry Moore to the 90’s, Auditoria de Galicia, Santiago, Chile

1996        
American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York
From Figure to Object:  A Century of Sculptors’ Drawings, Frith Street Gallery, and Karsten Schubert, London
Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC

1997    
Sculptors’ Drawings, The Visual Arts Museum, The School of Visual Arts, New York
Currents of Modern Sculpture, Two Sculptors, Inc., New York
79/97 An Exhibition of Works by Curators of the Visual Arts Gallery, 1979-1997, The Visual Arts Gallery, New York
Neuberger Museum of Art Biennial Exhibition for Public Art, Neuberger Museum, SUNY Purchase, New York
Facets of Contemporary Sculpture, Two Sculptors, Inc., New York
Reconfigurations, Pamela Auchincloss, New York

1997-ongoing    
Art in Embassies, Vienna, Austria

1998    
The Edward R. Broida Collection, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
Masters of the Masters:  MFA Faculty of the School of Visual Arts, New York, 1983-1998,
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH

1999    
The New Encyclopedists, Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum, Davos,Switzerland
House of Sculpture, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas:  traveled to Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Monterrey, Mexico
New Sculpture, McKee Gallery, New York
The Power of Drawing, Westbeth Gallery, New York
Another Form:  Drawing into Sculpture, The New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, New York, NY

2000        
American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting & Sculpture, The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York
Welded, Sculpture of the Twentieth Century, Neuburger Museum of Art, Purchase College State University of New York, Purchase, New York

2000-2001        
Bronze:  Contemporary British Sculpture, Holland Park and Sculpture at Goodwood, London
The Concealed Space, British Sculpture, Associazione Piemontese Arte, Turin
NEW works, McKee Gallery, New York

2001    
Kinds of Drawing, Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

2002        
Sculpture, Robert Steele Gallery, New York, NY
Tra-la-la: British Sculpture in the Sixties, Duveen Galleries, Tate Britain, London

2004    
The 179th Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, National Academy Museum, New York
Around the World in Forty Years, ART in Embassies Program, U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C.

2006    
Against the Grain: Contemporary Art from the Edward R. Broida Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York

2007         
British Visions: Modern and Contemporary Sculpture and Words on Paper, William H. Van Every Gallery  and Edward M. Smith Gallery, Davidson, North Carolina
Small Bodies, McKee Gallery, New York

COLLECTIONS
Aberdeen Art Gallery, Scotland
Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock AK
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Arts Council of Great Britain, London
British Council, London
British Museum, London
City of Bilbao, Spain
Contemporary Art Society, London
Florida International University, Miami, FL
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Hakone - Open Air Museum, Tokyo, Japan
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Leicester Education Authority, England
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
Martin Z. Margulies Sculpture Park, Florida International University, Miami, FL
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Rijksmuseum Kroller-Muller, Otterlo, Holland
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY
Peter Stuyvesant Foundation, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England
Tate Gallery, London
University of California at Los Angeles
University of North Carolina, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis


PUBLICATIONS
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 Pavillion XXXVI Venice Biennale, 1972.
The Condition of Sculpture:  A Selection of Recent Sculpture by Younger British and Foreign Artists,
Hayward Gallery 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.
Skulptur im 20. Jahrundert, 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, ed., British Sculpture in the Twentieth Century, Whitechapel
Art Gallery, London, 1981.
Judith K. Collischan van Wagner, Monumental Drawings by Sculptors, Hillwood Art Gallery, Long
Island 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, Long
Island University, Greenvale, NY, 1984.
Frank Gettings, Drawings 1974-84, Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., 1984.
John McEwen, Sculptors' Drawings, The British Council, London 1984.
The Seventh Dalhousie Drawing Exhibition:  Actual Size, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova
Scotia, 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.
Against the Grain: Contemporary Art from the Edward R. Broida Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2006.


REVIEWS AND WRITINGS BY WILLIAM TUCKER
William Tucker, "Henri Laurens Exhibition at Hayward," Studio, July 1971.
William Tucker, "A Note on Rietveld as a Sculptor," Studio, April 1972.
William Tucker, "Gravity, Rodin, Degas," Studio, July 1973.
William Tucker, Early Modern Sculpture, Oxford University Press, New York, 1974.
(British edition titled: The Language of Sculpture).
William Tucker, "The Condition of Sculpture," Studio, May 1975.
William Tucker, "Road to Tirgu Jiu," Art in America, November 1976.
William Tucker, "Modernism, Freedom, Sculpture," Art Journal, Winter 1977-1978.
William Tucker, "The Gonzalez exhibition," The New Criterion, May 1983.
William Tucker, "Rodin in the round," The New Criterion, March 1994.


PANEL and LECTURE DISCUSSIONS
Modern Starts:  Artists Perspectives, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, January 18, 2000.
Alberto Giacometti: An Artist’s Panel, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, November 19, 2001.
William Tucker lecturing on his work: William Tucker, New York Studio School, New York, March 5, 2002.
Lecture: William Tucker on Brancusi, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, July 6, 2004.


SELECTED REVIEWS
G. Baro, "Britain's Young Sculptors," Arts, December 1965.
E. Lucie-Smith, "William Tucker and Pol Bury at Kasmin," Studio, May 1967.
R. Melville, "Young Consolidators:  The Interim:  Show at Whitechapel," Architectural Review, July 1968.
M. Pinny, "Exhibition at Kasmin Gallery," Artscanada, August 1969.
J. Russell, "New Names in London:  A to Z," Art in America, September 1970.
W. Packer, "Kasmin Gallery, London Exhibit," Art and Artists, October 1970.
J. Burr, "London Galleries:  Kasmin Art Gallery, Exhibit," Apollo, November 1970.
Barry Martin, "Review," Studio, July 1973.
Hilton Kramer, "Review," New York Times, July 21, 1974.
Edward Fry, "Review," ARTFORUM, Summer 1975.
Fenella Crichton, "Review," Art International, June 1975.
William Feaver, "Review," Apollo, June 1975.
E. Lucie-Smith, "Review," Illustrated London News, June 1975.
Peter Fuller, "Review," New Society, June 5, 1975.
Lawrence Alloway, "Caro's Art - Tucker's Choice," ARTFORUM, October 1975.
Harry Chapman, "Review," Arts, November 1975.
Albert Elsen, "Review," Art Journal, Winter 1975-1976.
Hilton Kramer, "Review," New York Times, April 8, 1977.
Kenneth Baker, "William Tucker:  Meaning vs. Matter," Art in America, November - December 1977.
Hilton Kramer, "Triumphant New Work by Two Artists," New York Times, May 25, 1979.
Dore Ashton, "William Tucker's Gyre," Arts, June 1979.
Robert Berlind, "William Tucker at Elkon," Art in America, October 1979.
Hilton Kramer, "Image as Emblem," Art in America, January 1981.
Ron Shuebrook, "William Tucker," Artscribe, August 1982.
Steven Henry Madoff, "William Tucker - Review," Art in America, September 1982.
Matti Megged, "The Sculpture of William Tucker," Arts, September 1982.
John Russell, "William Tucker," New York Times, May 11, 1984.
Kenneth Baker, "William Tucker," Art in America, October 1984.
Steven Henry Madoff, "William Tucker," ARTnews, October 1984.
Michael Brenson, "A Sculpture Revival All Around Town," New York Times, November 1985.
John Russell, "Art:  New Sculpture by William Tucker," New York Times, November 15, 1985.
Michael Brenson, "Choices for the Thanksgiving Weekend," New York Times, November 29, 1985.
Kim Levin, "William Tucker," Village Voice, December 3, 1985.
Eric Gibson, "Two Sculptors," The New Criterion, January 1986.
Roland Hagenberg, "Bodies of Interior Spaces," Artfinder, Spring 1987.
Kenneth Baker, "William Tucker's Striking Sculpture," San Francisco Chronicle, March 24, 1987.
Dore Ashton, "William Tucker:  New Sculpture," Arts, Summer 1987.
Marina Vaizey, "Critics' Choice," The Sunday Times, July 12, 1987.
William Packer, "Tucker's Sculpture Pared Down to the Core," Financial Times, July 21, 1987.
Sarah Kent, "William Tucker," Time Out, July 29, 1987.
Kenneth Baker, "William Tucker," ARTFORUM, September 1987.
Michael Brenson, "William Tucker and His Greek Titans," New York Times, October 2, 1987.
Kay Larson, "William Tucker," New York Magazine, October 5, 1987.
Ruth Bass, "William Tucker:  David McKee Gallery," ARTnews, November 1987.
Paul Gardner, "The Envelope, Please," ARTnews, November 1987.
Wade Saunders & Anne Rochette, "William Tucker - Review," Art in America, December 1987.
J.A. Cornall, "William Tucker:  Annely Juda / Tate," Artscribe, January - February 1988.
Michael Brenson, "A Sculptor Caught up in His Materials," New York Times, Sunday, June 12, 1988.
Robert Hughes, "Gods, Chess and 28,000 Magazines," Time, June 13, 1988.
Eleanor Martin, "Art Meets Artist," The Sunday Record, June 26, 1988.
Kay Larson, "Hands On," New York Magazine, August 22, 1988.
Eric Gibson, "William Tucker’s American Decade," The New Criterion, Volume 7, No. 1, 1988.
William Zimmer, "Tracing the Changes and Constants of an Innovative Sculptor,"
New York Times, Sunday, August 28, 1988.
Robert Berlind, "William Tucker's American Decade," Sculpture, September - October 1988.
Ken Johnson, "Sculptor William Tucker," Hudson Valley, October 1988.
Elisa Turner, "A Superb Look at a Major 20th Century Sculptor," Miami Herald, Sunday,
October 23, 1988.
Leslie Judd Ahlander, "Tucker's Mesmerizing Abstracts," The Miami News, November 4, 1988.
Vivien Raynor, "Photos and Sculpture at the Aldrich," New York Times, November 27, 1988.
David Carrier, "William Tucker," Arts, December 1988.
Kenneth Baker, "Bronze Sculptor Masters the Form," San Francisco Chronicle, May 23, 1989.
"Visiting Artist," Chautauquan Daily, August 3, 1989.
Bill Berkson, "William Tucker," ARTFORUM, September 1989.
Kenneth Baker, "Sculpture in Big Apple Makes Heavy Statements," San Francisco Chronicle,
October 12, 1989.
Michael Brenson, "William Tucker Explores the Shapes of Prehistory," New York Times,
October 13, 1989.
Peggy Cyphers, "New York Reviews:  William Tucker," Arts, December 1989.
Jonathan Silver, "William Tucker," ARTnews, January 1990.
Nancy Grove, "The Third Degree:  Focusing on Sculpture," Art & Antiques, February 1990.
Karen Wilkin, "At the Galleries," Partisan Review, No. 1, 1990.
Lise Holst, "Mythopoeic Presences," Art in America, May 1990.
Nancy Princenthal, "Irrepressible Vigor:  Printmaking Expands," ARTnews, September 1990.
Kenneth Baker, "Physical Precision:  Notes on Some Recent Sculpture," Artspace, September -
October 1990.
Michael Brenson, "Steel and Wood," The New York Times, January 11, 1991.
Kenneth Baker, "Datebook," San Francisco Chronicle, January 13, 1991.
Michael Kimmelman, "William Tucker," The New York Times, March 22, 1991.
Steven Henry Madoff, "Sculpture:  A New Golden Age?," ARTnews, May 1991.
Helen L. Kohen, "ArtPark at FIU:  Art as Part of Daily Campus Life," The Miami Herald, May 5, 1991.
Pheralyn Dove, Philadelphia Inquirer, May 14, 1992.
Edward Sozanski, Philadelphia Inquirer, June 25, 1992.
Karen Wilkin, Partisan Review/3, 1992.
William Feaver, "Telling Fragments of Magnificent Incongruity," The Sunday Observer,
(London), May 9, 1993.
Karen Wilkin, "William Tucker," Galleries, May 1993.
Sarah Kent, Time Out Magazine, May 19 - 26, 1993.
John McDonald, "William Tucker:  The Philosophers - Sculpture and Drawings 1989 - 1992,"
Contemporary Art, Summer 1993.
Donald Kuspit, "William Tucker:  The Fated Return of the Body," Sculpture, September - October 1993.
Sam Hunter and John Jacobus, Modern Art, Third Edition, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. New York,
1993, page 337.
Johnathan Goodman, "William Tucker," ARTnews, May 1994.
Robert Taplin, "William Tucker at McKee," Art in America, September 1994.
Kathi Norklun, "Boulders into Bodies," Woodstock Times, February 20, 1995.
Twentieth Century American Scultpure at The White House, Exhibition III, brochure, The White House, Washington, D.C., October 1995.
Michael Kimmelman, "William Tucker," The New York Times, May 3, 1996.
Robert Taplin, "Body Doubles," Art In America, November 1996.
Mark Daniel Cohen, "Facets of Contemporary Sculpture," Review, October 15, 1997.
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