Jane Tuckerman

Jane Tuckerman
Born
Jane Bayard Tuckerman

1947 (age 78–79)
Education
Known for
  • Photography
  • mixed media
RelativesBayard Tuckerman Jr. (father)
Websitejanetuckerman.com

Jane Bayard Tuckerman (born 1947) is an American artist. Her photographs, made primarily in black-and-white film, document rituals and displaced communities across multiple countries, including a 1985 project on death rituals in Benares, India. She also makes large-scale Iris prints, mixed-media works combining torn-paper collage with photographs of interiors and landscapes, and black "paper dolls" as homes for spirits after they leave their bodies.

In 1982, she received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in photography. Her work is in the permanent collections of such institutions as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Minneapolis Institute of Art.

Early life and education

Tuckerman is from South Westport, Massachusetts. She graduated from Garrison Forest School and The Art Institute of Boston, and earned an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, where she studied photography under Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind.

Career

In 1975, Tuckerman exhibited infrared photographs and works combining embroidery and found objects mounted on photographs at the Addison Gallery of American Art. Tuckerman joined Harvard's Department of Visual and Environmental Studies in 1978 as the only full-time photography faculty member. In 1981, Tuckerman and photographer Sharon Fox curated an exhibition of infrared photography at Harvard University's Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts. The exhibition produced a book titled Second Sight, with an introduction by poet James Dickey.

Black-and-white photograph of a man rowing a boat past a domed ghat in India
Boatman on the Ganges, c. 1985, from Tuckerman's Benares, India series

In early 1985, she traveled to Benares, India, with photographer Christopher James to photograph the city's death rituals while filmmaker Robert Gardner was making Forest of Bliss. The project was sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Harvard Film Archive. Her photographs were published in Aperture, exhibited at the Carpenter Center, and later traveled to New York City's American Museum of Natural History. By 1986, she was an associate professor of studio arts and left Harvard at the end of that academic year.

The Benares project led to further travels to document rituals around the world. She photographed dancing, mourning, and other practices in Mexico, Brazil, Poland, Cambodia, Argentina, and Thailand. Her series The Displaced documented people uprooted by conflict in Rwanda and Bosnia.

In 2009, the New Bedford Art Museum in New Bedford, Massachusetts, hosted a retrospective of her work, which included photography, sculpture, painting, collage, and collected objects.

Recognition

Collections

Tuckerman's work is in the following public collections:

Publications

Personal life

Tuckerman is the daughter of jockey, businessman, and politician Bayard Tuckerman Jr.

In 1971, she married psychologist Henry Elliott Foley Jr. Some of her work appears in museum records under the name Jane Tuckerman Foley.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Foley-Tuckerman". The Boston Globe. October 24, 1971. p. 34A. ProQuest 506203650.
  2. 1 2 3 "Summer Palace, Vienna". Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
  3. 1 2 3 Parcellin, Paul (October–November 1998). "Panopticon Gallery/Boston: Sex and Death: Photographs by Jane Tuckerman and Paul Ickovic". Art New England. pp. 38–39. ISSN 0274-7073.
  4. 1 2 3 Hill, Shawn (October–November 2009). "Jane Tuckerman: Haunted". Art New England. p. 55. ISSN 0274-7073.
  5. 1 2 "NEA Artists Fellowships, 1982". Art in America. September 1982. p. 176.
  6. 1 2 "Untitled". Metropolitan Museum of Art.
  7. 1 2 "Untitled, 1980". Minneapolis Institute of Art.
  8. 1 2 3 Gainsley, Bonnie. "Untitled – Jane Tuckerman". Minneapolis Institute of Art. Archived from the original on February 15, 2005.
  9. 1 2 Akiba, David (November 15, 1975). "Husband and Wife Photo Show". The Boston Globe. p. 12. ProQuest 655755460.
  10. 1 2 Burlingame, Phyllida (May 19, 1986). "VES: More Than Just a Major". The Harvard Crimson.
  11. 1 2 Allara, Pamela (November 1981). "The Scope of Boston Art Is Much Broader Than It Would Appear". ARTnews. p. 131.
  12. ↑ Tuckerman, Jane; Fox, Sharon (1982). Second Sight: An Aesthetic, Technical and Historical Exploration of Infrared Photography. Introduction by James Dickey. Matrix Publications.
  13. 1 2 Gardner, Robert (March–April 1986). "City of Light" (PDF). Harvard Magazine. p. 33.
  14. 1 2 "Contributors". Aperture. Winter 1986.
  15. ↑ "Jane Tuckerman". Aperture. Winter 1986. pp. 17–21. JSTOR 24472050.
  16. ↑ "Untitled (interior, newspaper over window)". Harvard Art Museums.
  17. 1 2 "Untitled (Dead deer tied on top of truck)". Hood Museum of Art.
  18. 1 2 "Untitled". RISD Museum.
  19. ↑ Buchanan, William (April 16, 1974). "Called father of N.E. parimutuel racing: Bayard Tuckerman, sportsman, official". The Boston Globe. p. 43. ProQuest 518936976.
  20. ↑ "Bayard Tuckerman, Jr". National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on January 23, 2011.