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George Clair Tooker, Jr. (August 5, 1920 – March 27, 2011) was an American figurative painter. His works are associated with Magic realism , Social realism , Photorealism , and Surrealism . [1] [2] His subjects are depicted naturally as in a photograph, but the images use flat tones, an ambiguous perspective, and alarming ...
- August 5, 1920, New York City, U.S.
- Phillips Academy
George Clair Tooker, Jr. (August 5, 1920 – March 27, 2011) was an American figurative painter. His works are associated with Magic realism, Social realism, Photorealism, and Surrealism.
Active in. Malaga, Spain. Nationalities. American. Biography. Painter. He studied with Reginald Marsh and Kenneth Hayes Miller at the Art Students League and later with Paul Cadmus. To achieve his haunting scenes of urban isolation and mechanization, Tooker employs the Renaissance egg termpera technique.
- August 5, 1920
- March 27, 2011
27 de mar. de 2011 · Tooker is regarded as a preeminent modernist American painter, and received the National Medal of Arts in 2007 from President George W. Bush. He remains an integral player in the development of American Magic Realism and Social Realism in painting alongside Paul Cadmus and other artists.
- American
- Brooklyn, New York
Courtesy DC Moore Gallery, N.Y. API. artworks/3052. The Subway is the best known of the figurative paintings George Tooker made in response to the social injustices and isolation of postwar urban society—paintings that find an analogue in the period’s existentialist philosophy. In The Subway, Tooker employed multiple vanishing points and ...
George Tooker was an American artist known for his Social Realist tempera paintings of mid-century New York. View George Tooker’s 393 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices.
29 de mar. de 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...
