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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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