Following is the obituary of the artist by William Grimes, The New York Times, March 29, 2011. George Tooker, a painter whose haunting images of trapped clerical workers and forbidding government... Read full biography
Following is the obituary of the artist by William Grimes, The New York Times, March 29, 2011. George Tooker, a painter whose haunting images of trapped clerical workers and forbidding government offices expressed a peculiarly 20th-century brand of anxiety and alienation, died on Sunday at his home... Read full biography
Following is the obituary of the artist by William Grimes, The New York Times, March 29, 2011. George Tooker, a painter whose haunting images of trapped clerical workers and forbidding government offices expressed a peculiarly 20th-century brand of anxiety and alienation, died on Sunday at his home in Hartland, Vt. He was 90. The cause was complications of kidney failure, Edward De Luca, director of the D C Moore Gallery in Manhattan, said. Mr. Tooker, often called a symbolic, or magic,... Read full biography
Following is the obituary of the artist by William Grimes, The New York Times, March 29, 2011. George Tooker, a painter whose haunting images of trapped clerical workers and forbidding government offices expressed a peculiarly 20th-century brand of anxiety and alienation, died on Sunday at his home in Hartland, Vt. He was 90. The cause was complications of kidney failure, Edward De Luca, director of the D C Moore Gallery in Manhattan, said. Mr. Tooker, often called a symbolic, or magic, realist, worked well outside the critical mainstream for much of his career, relegated to the margins by the rise of abstraction. As doctrinaire modernism loosened its hold in the 1980s, however, he was rediscovered by a younger generation of artists,... Read full biography
Following is the obituary of the artist by William Grimes, The New York Times, March 29, 2011. George Tooker, a painter whose haunting images of trapped clerical workers and forbidding government offices expressed a peculiarly 20th-century brand of anxiety and alienation, died on Sunday at his home in Hartland, Vt. He was 90. The cause was complications of kidney failure, Edward De Luca, director of the D C Moore Gallery in Manhattan, said. Mr. Tooker, often called a symbolic, or magic, realist, worked well outside the critical mainstream for much of his career, relegated to the margins by the rise of abstraction. As doctrinaire modernism loosened its hold in the 1980s, however, he was rediscovered by a younger generation of artists, critics and curators, who embraced him as one of the most distinctive and mysterious American painters of the 20th century... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (74)
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100 New York Painters
2006
Dantzic, Cynthia Maris
224 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 2004 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition)
2004
McGowan, Alison C (Editor)
1,512 pages
George Tooker (Exhibition catalog)
2000
Editors, DC Moore Gallery
0 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
The Art Students League of New York A History (Teachers)
1999
Steiner, Raymond J
0 pages
Addison Gallery of American Art 65 Years A Selective Catalogue (Exhibition catalog)
1996
Addison Gallery
512 pages (color)
City of Ambition Artists and New York, 1900-1960 (Exhibition catalog)
1996
Sussman, Elizabeth
144 pages (color)
American Realism
1994
Lucie-Smith, Edward
240 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts)
1993
Bowker R R
1,473 pages
Themes in American Painting Common Styles and Genres/A Reference
1993
Henkes, Robert
260 pages (color)
American Selections 1850-1950 (Exhibition catalog)
1992
Lublin, Mary
163 pages (color)
Modernism in Dispute Art Since the Forties
1992
Wood, Paul (others)
267 pages (color)
Benton, Pollock and the Politics of Modernism
1991
Doss, Erika
445 pages
Art What Thou Eat Images of Food in American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Gustafson, Donna (others)
191 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
538 pages
An American Collection Paintings and Sculpture from the NAD (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Gerdts, Abigail Booth
208 pages (color)
American Realist Painting 1945-1980
1989
Ward, John L
431 pages
The American Collections Columbus Museum of Art
1988
Columbus Museum of Art
271 pages (color)
Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition)
1987
Cummings, Paul
653 pages
Varieties of Visual Experience (3rd edition)
1987
Feldman, Edmund Burke
528 pages (color)
Modern American Realism The Sara Roby Foundation Collection (Exhibition catalog)
1987
Mecklenburg, Virginia
148 pages (color)
A Proud Heritage Two Centuries of American Art
1987
Neff, Terry (editor)
300 pages (color)
The Ebsworth Collection: American Modernism, 1911-1947
1987
Saint Louis Art Museum
225 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986
1986
Jaques Cattell Press
1,292 pages
300 Years of American Art (two volumes)
1986
Zellman, Michael David
1,102 pages (color)
George Tooker
1985
Garver, Thomas H
144 pages (color)
Treasures from the National Museu of American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1985
Kloss, William/C C Eldredge
254 pages (color)
American Artists: An Illustrated Survey of Leading Contemporary Americans
1985
Krantz, Les
347 pages (color)
American Painting and Sculpture A Concise History
1984
Baigell, Mathew
420 pages
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art Selections from Permanent Collection
1984
Chicago, Museum Contemporary
164 pages (color)
World Artists 1950-1980
1984
Marks, Claude
912 pages
The Art of New York
1983
Chwast, Seymour/S Heller
190 pages
Artists by Themselves Artist's Portrait's from the National Academy of Design (Exhibition catalog)
1983
National Academy of Design
175 pages (color)
Realism and Realities The Other Side of American Painting 1940-1960 (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Berman, Greta/Jeffrey Wechsler
195 pages (color)
American Landscape/Genre Paintings in the New York Historical Society (3 vols)
1982
Koke, Richard J
1,243 pages
Solitude Inner Visions in American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Terra Museum of American Art
41 pages (color)
Critical Vision/A Historyof Social and Political Art in the U S