Anne wilkes tucker biography sample
Anne wilkes tucker biography sample
Anne wilkes tucker biography sample writing...
Anne Wilkes Tucker
American curator of photography
Anne Wilkes Tucker is an American retired museum curator of photographic works.
She retired in June 2015.[1]
Life and work
Tucker was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.[2] She received a B.A. in Art History from Randolph Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, Virginia in 1967, and an A.A.S in photographic illustration from Rochester Institute of Technology in 1968.
In 1972, she earned a Master of Fine Arts in Photographic History from the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, New York, studying under Nathan Lyons and Beaumont Newhall.[3]
While in graduate school, she worked as a research assistant at the George Eastman House in Rochester; as a research associate at the Gernsheim Collection at the University of Texas, Austin; and as a curatorial intern in the photography department of the Museum of Modern Art, New York with a grant from the New York State Council for the Arts.
Tucker began worki