Albert Tucker (1914 - 1999) was one of the

strongest Australian painters of last century. His

expressionistic style of painting was formed during

the wartime years, when the city of Melbourne

took on a strange and unreal atmosphere.

His first major series of paintings, collectively titled

Images of Modern Evil, was painted between 1945

and 1947. Tucker lived in Europe and the United

States throughout the 1950s. There he refined and

extended his subjects, concentrating on Australian

myths, which he saw as central to the definition of

national identity.