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[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]From 1959 \u2013 1985, James Tucker served as the first full-time curator at the Weatherspoon Art Museum at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG). Gregory Ivy, founder of UNCG\u2019s Art Department and Weatherspoon Art Museum, hired Tucker as the Curator of Collections. Tucker also taught art at the University while pursuing a personal career as an artist.\u00a0Beach Cat<\/strong>\u00a0is one of Tucker\u2019s later works, and it demonstrates his simple, colorful way of painting. In this piece, he silhouettes figures on the expansive Ocracoke, North Carolina landscape, typical of his paintings in the late 1970\u2019s and early 1980\u2019s. In his earlier works, Tucker experimented with abstract expressionism and pointillism, a technique of painting using small dots of color. Tucker exhibited his work throughout the 1960\u2019s and 1970\u2019s, winning numerous awards along the way. His curatorial work greatly contributed to the Weatherspoon Art Museum\u2019s reputation as one of the leading venues for contemporary art in the Southeast.[\/vc_column_text]