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 ...

Meditative and intense, George Tooker's paintings are about the human condition. Although he is best-known for angst-ridden, Orwellian imagery, Tooker brings to his work a larger scope that ...

If ever there was a radical disconnect between artist and subject matter, it can be found in the personality and paintings of George Tooker. Now 88 and nearly deaf, Tooker lives modestly in a semi ...

George Tooker (b.1920) is a living American artist whose work, and in some respects whose life, seems especially pertinent to our times. Deeply spiritual and therefore attuned to social injustice ...

In a November 1978 interview for Vermont Public Radio, George Tooker (1920–2011) stated wryly, “I certainly don’t want to see my pictures after they’re done.” The interview, preserved on ...

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.

One of Magic Realism’s most prominent visual artists, George Tooker (born 1920) combines fantasy and reality with provocative results. Rather than the illusionary effects promoted by most Magic ...

An artist was shosen to illustrate each of six operas. Aside from George Tooker in the series there was Sandro Chia (Il Trovatore), Tom Wesselmann (Lulu), Karel Appel (Pagliacci), WIll Barnet (Peter ...

This chart shows whether George Tooker’s total sales are going up, and if so, whether this is because more artworks by the artist have been offered and sold or because more high-value artworks have ...