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George Tooker
George Clair Tooker, Jr. is an American pictorial artist. His works are associated with magical realism, social realism, realism and surrealism. Her subjects are naturally represented as in a photo, but shots use flat tones, ambiguous perspectives, and alarmingly adjacent positions to hint at a given fact. imagine or dream. He disagrees with associating his work with magical realism or surrealism, as he said: "I after painting reality so deeply ingrained in my mind that it comes back. like a dream, but I'm not after drawing dreams. for example, or fiction. ”In 1968, he was elected to the National Academy of Design and was a member of the Chinese Academy of Arts and Literature. Ky. Tooker was one of nine recipients of the 2007 National Art Medal.
BornAugust 05, 1920, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
DiedMarch 27, 2011, Hartland, Vermont, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
EducationPhillips Academy
Alma materHarvard University, Art Students League of New York
MovementFigurative art, Social realism, Surrealism

About George Tooker

Painter George Tooker was born in New York City, New York, United States on August 5, 1920. She dies at the age of 90, on March 27, 2011.

Painter well known for works like"Subway" in 1950 and"Government Bureau" in 1956, and associated with Social Realism and Magic Realism.

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George Tooker before becoming famous

George Tooker was born in the Zodiac sign Leo (The Lion), and 1920 is also the year of Monkey (猴) in the Chinese Zodiac.

Prior to attending the Art Students League of New York, he studied English literature at Harvard University and briefly served in the Marine Corps. His teachers were Reginald Marsh and Kenneth Hayes Miller.

Achievement of George Tooker

He received the National Medal of Arts in 2007.

George Tooker's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

He was born and raised in Brooklyn Heights and Bellport, New York, where he grew up. His father, George Clair Tooker, was Anglo/French-American, while his mother, Angela Montejo Roura, was English/Spanish-Cuban. His long-term partner was artist William R. Christopher.

George Tooker Collabed with

He and Painter Joan Mitchell were both well-known modernist painters.

George Tooker Income & Net worth

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Latest information about George Tooker updated on March 19 2023.