Diane Tuckman is an American artist. She is known
for her
silk painting work and as an author of several books on the subject with Jan Janas. She resides and works in
Lanham, Maryland
Lanham is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Prince George's County, Maryland. As of the 2020 United States Census it had a population of 11,282. The New Carrollton station (the terminus of the Washington Metro's Orange Li ...
in the Greater Washington, D.C. area.
Tuckman was born in
Egypt.
Early life and work
In an interview with ''
The Washington Free Beacon'', Tuckman recalled that while living in
Egypt as a child during
WWII, "they were shooting
Jewish girls in the street…My family and I escaped in 1948 and went to France." Though less harrowing, even in France "it was a very difficult time after the war, with ration tickets and very little housing."
Tuckman moved to the United States in 1958 soon after marriage. Tuckman is credited as one of the seminal artists who helped to popularize silk painting in the United States through her books, and when her company (Ivy Imports) was the first US-based company to "import the French dyes needed to paint on silk."
Tuckman is also the co-founder of the nonprofit organization Silk Painters International (SPIN),
which in 2000 helped to organize the Second International Silk Painting Congress at
George Mason University
George Mason University (George Mason, Mason, or GMU) is a public research university in Fairfax County, Virginia with an independent City of Fairfax, Virginia postal address in the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area. The university was origin ...
.
SPIN now routinely organizes a silk painting biennial; the most recent one was held in 2018 in
Gatlinburg, TN
Gatlinburg is a mountain resort city in Sevier County, Tennessee, United States. It is located southeast of Knoxville and had a population of 3,944 at the 2010 Census and a U.S. Census population of 3,577 in 2020. It is a popular vacation resort ...
. The organization now has over 500 members.
Books co-authored with Jan Janas
*''The Complete Book of Silk Painting.'' Cincinnati, OH: North Light. .
*''Creative Silk Painting.'' Cincinnati, OH: North Light. .
*''The Best of Silk Painting.'' Cincinnati, OH: North Light. .
*''The Fine Art of Painting on Silk.'' Atglen, PA: Schiffer, 2018 .
Exhibitions
Tuckman has exhibited and curated silk art exhibitions around the Greater Washington, DC region. She has been referred to as "a silk painting pioneer in America, she teaches, paints, and exhibits her silk paintings, as well as promotes the art form through her educational programs."
References
External links
Artomatic 2017 Interview VideoSilk Painters International (SPIN)
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Living people
20th-century Egyptian artists
20th-century Egyptian women artists
20th-century American women artists
American contemporary painters
Painters from Washington, D.C.
Painters from Maryland
Jewish American artists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Artists from Maryland
21st-century American Jews
21st-century American women