She resided and worked in Lanham, Maryland[3] in the Greater Washington, D.C. area for many years until her death in 2024.
[5] 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 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[6]) was the first US-based company to "import the French dyes needed to paint on silk.
[2] SPIN now routinely organizes a silk painting biennial; the most recent one was held in 2018 in Gatlinburg, TN.