Pennsylvania, New York. 1883 - 1965
Precisionist painting-architecture, landscape, interiors
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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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Connecticut. 1904 - 1999
Drawing, nude figure, satirical genre, etching
Pennsylvania, Kansas / France. 1859 - 1937
Painting-religious, Orientalism, genre, figure, landscape
New York, Maine, California. 1887 - 1968
Modernist landscape, figure and genre painting
Massachusetts, New Hampshire. 1862 - 1938
Upper-class female figure and portrait painting
Illinois, Michigan. 1887 - 1969
Non-objective painter, sculptor, architectural drawing
New York. 1898 - 1969
Social-realist painting, illustration, lithography, photography
New York, Illinois. 1907 - 1975
Landscape, coastal, figure and genre painting
New York / Egypt. 1906 - 1956
Social-surreal streetscape, non ob, teacher
New York, Ohio / England. 1891 - 1948
Precisionist architectural views and still-life painting
Pennsylvania, Nebraska. 1879 - 1931
Landscape, genre, figure and coastal painting
New York. 1880 - 1946
Abstract botanic landscape painting
New Mexico, New York. 1887 - 1986
Abstract botanical and landscape structure painting
Pennsylvania, New York / Europe. 1883 - 1935
Precisionist painting, landscape, still life, figure, portrait, industrial scene
Iowa. 1891 - 1942
Regional scene painter, genre-portrait, landscape
Pennsylvania / France. 1855 - 1919
Portrait, genre, elegant female figure, interior, landscape paintings, nudes
New York. 1835 - 1886
Coastal views, marine and landscape painting
Illinois, Minnesota / France, Russian Federation. 1889 - 1963
Figure-landscape, still life and genre painting
Pennsylvania. 1881 - 1918
Cubist images-machines, photography, drawing
New York, Ohio. 1902 - 1988
City genre, street scenes and figure painting, graphic design
New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts / France. 1884 - 1958
Figure, genre, carnival and interior painting
New York, Connecticut / France. 1879 - 1973
Photography, landscape painting, nocturnes
New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Ohio. 1853 - 1902
Landscape and portrait painting, illustrator
Maine. 1877 - 1943
Modernist sea-land imagery, mountain, still-life and portrait painting
Nebraska, Illinois. 1896 - 1977
Non objective, modernist genre-figure-views
New York. 1899 - 1987
Social realist figure and genre painting, lithography, teaching
New York. 1892 - 1964
Abstraction, mod-real imagery
Pennsylvania, New York. 1848 - 1892
Trompe l'oeil still life painting, hanging game
New York / Italy, France. 1877 - 1946
Modernist figure, landscape and still life painting
Massachusetts / England, France. 1834 - 1903
Figure, landscape, and portrait painting, etching
New York. 1861 - 1948
Portrait, figure, sea-landscape and marine [aomtomg
New York, Vermont. 1898 - 1954
Illustration, urban realistic painting-figure and genre