George Tooker Paintings, Bio, Ideas | TheArtStory
WEBMar 27, 2011 · George Tooker's eerie and captivating mid-20th century paintings took on art's biggest themes of desire, death, religion, and grief.
George Tooker - Wikipedia
WEBHe was particularly interested in Classical sculpture, Flemish painting and sculpture, Italian Renaissance painting and sculpture, Dutch Golden Age painting, 17th-century French art, Neue Sachlichkeit art, and Mexican art of the 1920s and 1930s.
George Tooker - Artnet
WEBGeorge 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.
George Tooker - Smithsonian American Art Museum
WEBMany of Tooker's paintings contain a strong element of implicit social comment, and he creates silent theaters in which reality is transformed into deadeningly repetitive drama. He uses precise, geometric architectural structures as backdrops for his protagonists, who often appear as shrouded, shapeless masses contained within boxes or cubicles.
George Tooker | The Subway | Whitney Museum of American Art
WEBThe 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.
George Tooker - 8 artworks - lithography - WikiArt.org
WEBView all 8 artworks. George Tooker lived in the XX – XXI cent., a remarkable figure of American Social Realism and Surrealism. Find more works of this artist at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
George Tooker: A Purveyor of Modern Alienation and Despair
WEBMar 15, 2018 · Throughout a career that spanned decades, American artist George Tooker reflected on the way in which modern alienation and despair impacted on the lives of ordinary Americans going about their daily routines and became a purveyor of what the American Dream had or had not achieved.
George Tooker - Artists - DC Moore Gallery
WEBTooker had several major museum exhibitions during his lifetime, including a retrospective, George Tooker: Paintings, 1947-1973, organized by the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, California, in 1974; George Tooker: Paintings and Working Drawings at the Marsh Gallery, University of Richmond, Virginia, in 1989; 50 Years of Painting and Study ...
George Tooker | Government Bureau - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
WEBWhile Tooker’s paintings typically convey his passionate desire for social harmony and justice, Government Bureau represents a darker, more pessimistic dimension of his art. The work takes the viewer inside a cold, starkly lit interior …
George Tooker - Artworks for Sale & More | Artsy
WEBDiscover and purchase George Tooker’s artworks, available for sale. Browse our selection of paintings, prints, and sculptures by the artist, and find art you love.