George Tooker

George Tooker (1920–2011) was an American painter and artist.

Also recorded as George Clair Jr. Tooker.

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Overview

Born at Brooklyn in 1920, died at Hartland in 2011.

In detail

George Tooker studied at Harvard University, Art Students League of New York and Phillips Academy. the recorded working language is English.

Membership is recorded of American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Work by George Tooker is recorded in the collections of Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and Whitney Museum of American Art.

Distinctions recorded are National Medal of Arts.

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    “George Tooker”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading

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    Wikidata, structured authority record Q938221: George Tooker

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