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 ...

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.