(indeed I fell)
upon another hero:
a pub-haunting
grungy 'common labourer'
who painted in his sitting-room
and never sought to sell.
Only his immediate family knew.
So, after he died and his house
was open to visitors, there was a queue.
This is his jacket...
.
..and these are some of his paintings :
I admire his modesty
at least as much as
his ability, his sheer
and sympathetic honesty.
his ability, his sheer
and sympathetic honesty.
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| He was once a boxer. Read more in the Manchester Evening News and the Guardian. |
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Eric Tucker is not to be confused with the Australian realist painter, Albert Tucker.
Although he has been compared to LS Lowry (also from the Manchester area), Joe (his nephew) said that Eric actually preferred the work of the great Edward Burra, another of my heroes.
In his lifetime, Tucker sold just two paintings, reminding me of a third hero: Vincent van Gogh.
Most of my heroes are painters...
There is yet more information in his all-too-brief Wikipedia entry.
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