Paul Hayes Tucker

Paul Hayes Tucker (born 1950) is an American art historian, professor, curator, and author. He is regarded as the world’s leading expert on Claude Monet (1840-1926) and an authority on French Impressionism. He spent 36 years teaching at the University of Massachusetts Boston, with visiting professorships at Williams College, The Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, and the University of California Santa Barbara. He has curated major Monet and Impressionist exhibitions at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Art Institute of Chicago, the Royal Academy of Arts, London, the National Gallery, Washington, The Wadsworth, the Artizon Museum, Tokyo, the Nagoya City Art Museum, and the Hiroshima Museum, among other institutions. He has also authored or edited 11 books.