Anne wilkes tucker biography template

Anne Wilkes Tucker is the curator emerita of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, having, in 1976, become founding curator of the photography department for which she acquired 30,000 photographs made on all seven continents.

She curated or co-curated over 40 exhibitions, most with accompanying catalogues, including surveys on the Czech Avant-garde, the history of Japanese photography, and the history of war photography.

Anne wilkes tucker biography template

She has also contributed articles to over 150 magazines, books and other catalogues and has lectured throughout the North and South America, Europe and Asia. Her honors, fellowships, and awards include being selected as “America’s Best Curator” by Time magazine in 2001 in an issue devoted to America’s Best.

Born in 1945

Anne Wilkes Tucker will be Inducted into the International Photography Hall of Fame at a Ceremony in St.

Louis, November 1, 2024. Learn more here.

Photo: Anne Wilkes Tucker © 2006 Timothy Greenfield-Sanders

Photo: HOF Inductee: Anne