Artist George Tooker, who was awarded the National Medal ... His 1956 painting, Government Bureau, shows a softly glowing waiting room while pairs of eyes peer suspiciously through holes in ...

Meditative and intense, George Tooker's paintings are about the human ... A similar dehumanizing experience is depicted in Waiting Room. In the 1960s, Tooker allowed a new vision, inspired by ...

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 ...

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 ...