Albert W. Tucker was chairman of the mathematics department at Princeton. His is well know for the Kuhn-Tucker theorem, a basic result in linear programming, which was published in conference proceedings, rather than in a journal. He received an honorary degree from Dartmouth College.
Tucker's determination to artistically investigate the physical horrors and distorted social relations produced by the war was anathema to the CPA and its promotion of the war effort.
In 1995 Tucker told a journalist that the anguished despair that always recurred in his paintings was connected to his attempt to understand the concept of freedom.
AlbertTucker, who continued working throughout the last years of his life, refused to accept much of the complacency generated by the post-war boom.
AlbertTucker, the third son of John and Mary (Ward) Tucker, a younger brother of Horace, born in Richland County, Ohio, married Mary Frame in 1858.
Albert was a farmer and the founder of the town of Mentone, which was laid out by Amos Kist and Cahl Hughes in May, 1882.
Tucker descendants, and they are legion, are proud of the heritage left them by those sturdy ancestors whose hard work and determination conquered the wilderness and helped to make our country great.
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