Tooker, George
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Birth Date
- 1920-08-05
Death Date
- 2011-03-27
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- Affiliation Start: 1965
- Affiliation End: 1968
- Organization: Art Students League (New York, N.Y.)
Birth Place
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
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- found: Garver, T.H. George Tooker, c1985:pub. info. (lives and works in Hartland, Vt.)
- found: His George Tooker, 1988:p. 23 (George Clair Tooker, Jr.; b. 1920 in Brooklyn, N.Y.)
- found: New York times WWW site, Mar. 30, 2011(in obituary published Mar. 29: George Tooker; b. George Clair Tooker, Jr., Aug. 5, 1920, Brooklyn; d. Sunday [Mar. 27, 2011], Hartland, Vt., aged 90; painter whose haunting images of trapped clerical workers and forbidding government offices expressed a peculiarly 20th-century brand of anxiety and alienation)
- found: Wikipedia, February 10, 2023:(George Clair Tooker, Jr. (August 5, 1920-March 27, 2011) was an American figurative painter whose works are associated with magic realism, social realism, photorealism and surrealism; born in Brooklyn, New York; took art lessons at the Fogg Art Museum; graduated from Harvard University in 1942; spent the late 1940s and early 1950s in Brooklyn studying art and painting; his work often carried strong social commentary; was in a relationship with Paul Cadmus from 1944-1949 and was part of the PaJaMa artists collective; taught at the Art Students League of New York from 1965 to 1968; died in Hartland, Vermont) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FTooker
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- 1985-01-17: new
- 2023-02-21: revised
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