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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Karen Sue Smith reviews an exhibit of the work of the American artist George Tooker in our January 19-26 issue. A selection of Tookers art can be viewed here.

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 ...