Professor Paul Tucker
Office: McCormack 4-442
Telephone: 617-287-5744
E-mail: paul.tucker@umb.edu

Paul Hayes Tucker, who has taught art history at the University of Massachusetts Boston since 1978, is currently The Paul Hayes Tucker Distinguished Professor of Art, a Chair established in his name by two Boston patrons of the arts, Barbara Lee and Ellen Poss. Hailed by Time Magazine as one of America’s foremost authorities on Claude Monet and Impressionism, Professor Tucker earned his B.A. from Williams College and his Ph.D from Yale University.

Professor Tucker has served on the faculties of the Institute of Fine Arts (NYU), Williams College, and the University of California Santa Barbara, and has been honored with many awards and grants, including the Chancellor’s Award for Distinguished Scholarship (UMass Boston); the Yale Press Governor’s Award for the best book published by an author under 40; and grants from the American Council of Learned Societies as well as from the Florence Gould Arts Foundation. In addition to his scholarly pursuits, Professor Tucker served as the President and Chairman of the Board of the Terra Foundation for the Arts and is the founder and Director of Arts on the Point, a public sculpture park in Boston.

In addition to his many publications, Professor Tucker has served as guest curator for more than half a dozen major exhibitions, including The Sculpture of William Tucker (Santa Barbara, 2002); Renoir. From Outsider to Old Master. 1870-1892. (Bridgestone Museum & Nagoya City Art Museum, 2001); The Impressionists at Argenteuil (National Gallery, Washington and the Wadsworth Atheneum, 2000); Monet in the 20th Century (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Royal Academy of Arts London, 1998-99); Monet. A Retrospective (Bridgestone Museum, Nagoya City Art Museum, and Hiroshima Museum, 1994-5); and Monet in the ‘90s. The Series Paintings (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Art Institute of Chicago, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1990).

Professor Tucker is completing the catalogue of the French paintings in the Lehman Collection at the Metropolitan Museum in New York and is preparing a course for The Teaching Company on 20th Century art, which will also become a college level textbook. He is also continuing to expand the offerings of Arts on the Point in Boston.