Addison Gallery of American Art
Phillips Academy
Andover, MA 01810-4166
Andover, MA 01810-4166
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1920 Brooklyn, New York - 2011 Hartland, Vermont. Known for: Surreal genre and figure painting-social commentary.
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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Museums & Collections (11)
All MuseumsBoca Raton Museum of Art
Mizner Park
501 Plaza Real
Boca Raton, FL 33432Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio
480 East Broad Street
Columbus, OH 43215-3886Museum of Contemporary Art-Chicago
220 East Chicago Avenue
Chicago, IL 60611-2604National Museum of American Art-Smithsonian
8th and G Streets NW
Washington, DC 20004New-York Historical Society
2 West 77th Street At Central Park
New York City, NY 10024Oklahoma City Museum of Art, OKCMOA
415 Couch Drive
Oklahoma City, OK 73102Sara Roby Foundation Collection, Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM)
G St. NW & 8th St. NW
Washington, DC 20004Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art (SAMA)
Altoona Facility (Brett Building)
1210 11th Ave
Altoona, PA 16601The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
118 N. Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA 19102Whitney Museum of American Art
99 Ganesvoort Street
New York City, NY 10014