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Wednesday, March 30, 2011

DC Moore Gallery Announces Acclaimed Painter George Tooker Dead at 90

DC Moore Gallery Announces Acclaimed Painter George Tooker Dead at 90



George Tooker, The Subway, 1950 (detail), egg tempera on gesso panel, 18 1/8 x 36 1/8 in. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, purchased with funds from the Juliana Force Purchase Award, 50.23. Photograph courtesy of the Whitney Museum of American Art.



http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=46129
NEW YORK, N.Y.- One of the most acclaimed painters of his generation, George Tooker (1920-2011) possessed an originality and depth of vision that is unsurpassed in modern American art. For over sixty years, he has been highly regarded for his luminous and often enigmatic work. His themes range from alienation and the dehumanizing aspects of contemporary society to personal meditations on the human condition. By reducing action and anecdote to subtle gestures and juxtapositions that carry meaning and express essential truths, Tooker created modern allegories without traditional narrative content. Tooker died at his home in Hartland, Vermont, on Sunday, March 27 at the age of ninety. The cause was kidney failure according to DC Moore ... More  http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=46129


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