Artist George Tooker, who was awarded the National Medal of the Arts in 2007, died of kidney failure at his home in Hartland, Vt., last Sunday. He was 90 years old. Tooker used luminous colors and ...

Such is George Tooker, 46, who works painstakingly in the 14th century Florentine medium of egg tempera on gesso panels. He is unabashedly proud of being called a traditionalist and a craftsman.

Russell Jacoby’s Social Amnesia: A Critique of Contemporary Psychology from Adler to Lang (1975) has a black and white copy of Sleepers by George Tooker as the book’s cover illustration.