Birth Name:

George Tooker

Male

Birth Date:

Thu, Aug 05, 1920

Time of Birth:

Unknown (using Noon)

Place of Birth:

Brooklyn, New York, United States

Age:

103

Zodiac Sign:

Leo

Astrology Data:

Sun

12°

Leo

53'

About George Tooker

George Clair Tooker, Jr. (August 5, 1920 – March 27, 2011) was an American figurative painter. His works are associated with Magic realism, Social realism, Photorealism and Surrealism. His subjects are depicted naturally as in a photograph, but the images use flat tones, an ambiguous perspective, and alarming juxtapositions to suggest an imagined or dreamed reality. He did not agree with the association of his work with Magic realism or Surrealism, as he said, "I am after painting reality impressed on the mind so hard that it returns as a dream, but I am not after painting dreams as such, or fantasy." In 1968, he was elected to the National Academy of Design and was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Tooker was one of nine recipients of the National Medal of Arts in 2007.

Link to Wikipedia biography

External Links:

• Progressive Living resource Comprehensive biography and gallery

• Columbus Museum of Art Web page on Tooker's 1964 paintingLunch (click on picture for larger image)

• The Essence of Magic Realism - Critical Study of the origins and development of Magic Realism in art.

• Ten Dreams Galleries

• Figureworks.com/20th Century work at www.figureworks.com

• George Tooker artist page, DC Moore Gallery

• George Tooker, "Capturing Modern Anxieties

• Online Exhibition, George Tooker: Embrace of Peace at POBA Where the Arts Live

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Astrological aspects and planetary data / tags for George Tooker: Sun 12 Leo, Moon 19 Aries, Mercury 29 Cancer, Venus 21 Leo, Mars 12 Scorpio, Jupiter 25 Leo, Saturn 10 Virgo, Uranus 4 Pisces, Neptune 11 Leo, Pluto 8 Cancer, Sun Square Mars, Sun Semi Sextile Saturn, Sun Conjunct Neptune, Venus Conjunct Jupiter, Venus Semi Square Pluto, Mars Sextile Saturn, Mars Square Neptune, Mars Trine Pluto, Jupiter Semi Square Pluto, Saturn Semi Sextile Neptune, Saturn Sextile Pluto, Uranus Trine Pluto

Categories related to George Tooker: Harvard University alumni, 20th-century American painters, American male painters, 21st-century American painters, 21st-century male artists, 2011 deaths, August 5 births, United States National Medal of Arts recipients, American people of English descent, American people of French descent, Vermont, Artists from Brooklyn, Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Deaths from kidney failure, American people of Cuban descent, Gay artists, LGBT artists from the United States, Art Students League of New York faculty, Art Students League of New York alumni, Converts to Roman Catholicism from Anglicanism, Artists from Vermont, 1920 births, People from Hartland, American tempera painters

Photo attribution: NEA photographer Michael Stewart, Press release, National Endowment for the Arts