Tucker Study Centre
Located inside the recently redeveloped Heide III building, the Tucker Study Centre was built as a companion facility to the Albert & Barbara Tucker Gallery.
Albert Tucker in London, early 1948
Albert Tucker Archive
Gift of Barbara Tucker 2005
© Barbara Tucker
While the Gallery provides additional exhibition space, the Study Centre offers a new important research facility that may be accessed by visiting curators, academic researchers, education and group tours and members of the public by appointment.
On request, researchers may view and work with materials from the Museum’s Archives and more specifically, the Tucker Archive. This rich array of materials includes historical papers, exhibition files and information on Heide’s art collection. Please note the Archives are still undergoing a process of being identified, sorted and documented and a complete listing of materials will be available shortly. The types of material available for research are as follows (although individual pieces may be subject to availability):
Exhibition invitation May 1952
Albert Tucker Archive
© Barbara Tucker
Tucker Archive
- Sketchbooks
- Research collection including works on paper (sketches, ‘notes’, exploratory drawings)
- Photographs – personal
- Photographs – artworks
- Exhibition catalogues – solo exhibitions
- Exhibition catalogues – group exhibitions
- Newspaper and magazine clippings
- Paper based archive material – (documents, transcripts and files)
- Objects and artist’s materials from the artist’s studio
- AV material (videos, audio tapes – oral histories)
- Books from Albert and Barbara Tucker’s personal library
- International Art journals Tucker subscribed to (1960s onwards)
- Reference books
Heide Museum of Modern Art Archives
- Historical photographs from the Reed period
- Museum history documents and photographs
- Danila Vassilieff Archive (personal papers)
- Norman Wettenhall Archive (inaugural Heide Chairman)
- Selection of Reed & Harris publications
- Selection of Angry Penguins and other modernist cultural journals
- Artist files (Collection artists)
- Object files (Collection works)
- Heide Museum of Modern Art exhibition files (including installation documentation)
- Museum of Modern Art & Design Australia and Contemporary Art Society material
- Heide library (John & Sunday Reed and Barrett Reid books)
- Copies of John & Sunday Reed and Barrett Reid papers
Bookings
Due to the fragile and rare nature of archive material, all access is by appointment only and must be supervised. A minimum of 72 hours notice is required.
Researchers may access the Study Centre free of charge
Education bookings start from $4.00 per student
Group bookings start from $8.00 per person
To make an appointment to visit the Tucker Study Centre, please contact Lesley Harding, Curator, Tucker Collection & Archive
T 03 9850 1500 info@heide.com.au
