Jean Tucker Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS-MS-ms117

Staff Only

The Jean Tucker Papers chiefly consists of correspondence with photographers, artists, curators, and art historians, especially concerning Tucker’s work with Gallery 210 at the University of Missouri, St. Louis. Correspondents include Ansel Adams, Robert Adams, Peter Bunnell, Paul Caponigro, Christo, Gyorgy Kepes, Barbara Morgan, Beaumont Newhall, and Jerry Uelsmann.

Dates

Creation: 1967-1995

Creator

Tucker, Jean S. (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

Open

Conditions Governing Use

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Extent

4.00 boxes

Additional Description

Biographical Information

Jean Tucker (December 15, 2009) was an American writer and photography teacher. Tucker graduated from Clayton High School and Washington University, where she earned her master's degree. In 1978, Jean Tucker founded the Photography Gallery at the Center for Metropolitan Studies. Tucker was one of the first to exhibit contemporary photography in St. Louis as well as one of the first female curators of her time. Tucker had become interested in photography after she and her husband attended an Ansel Adams exhibition in Chicago in 1970. She returned to St. Louis and began teaching photography at the University of Missouri-St. Louis (UMSL) as well as exhibiting the works of local and international artists in the PPRC Photography Gallery and Gallery 210 at UMSL. She also helped start a small gallery on Laclede's Landing, First Street Forum, that later morphed into The Contemporary Art Museum. Tucker's influence came from the books she wrote, the photography dealers she cultivated across the country and from the top photographic critics she brought to St. Louis.