| LC control no. | n 84180926 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Tooker, George |
| Birth date | 1920-08-05 |
| Death date | 2011-03-27 |
| Place of birth | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) |
| Place of death | Hartland (Vt.) |
| Affiliation | Art Students League (New York, N.Y.) |
| Profession or occupation | Painters |
| Found in | Garver, T.H. George Tooker, c1985: pub. info. (lives and works in Hartland, Vt.) His George Tooker, 1988: p. 23 (George Clair Tooker, Jr.; b. 1920 in Brooklyn, N.Y.) 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) 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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