March 6th, 2012
(via Gandalf’s Gallery: George Tooker - Coney Island [1948])

(via Gandalf’s Gallery: George Tooker - Coney Island [1948])

24 notes Source: gandalfsgallery.blogspot.com #George Tooker#Coney Island#1948#art#painting
March 29th, 2011
(via George Tooker, Painter Capturing Modern Anxieties, Dies at 90 - NYTimes.com) George Tooker’s work expressed a 20th-century brand of anxiety and alienation. Above, “The Subway” from 1950. George Tooker, a painter whose haunting images of trapped clerical workers and forbidding government offices expressed a peculiarly 20th-century brand of anxiety and alienation, died on Sunday at his home in Hartland, Vt. He was 90.

(via George Tooker, Painter Capturing Modern Anxieties, Dies at 90 - NYTimes.com)

George Tooker’s work expressed a 20th-century brand of anxiety and alienation. Above, “The Subway” from 1950.

George Tooker, a painter whose haunting images of trapped clerical workers and forbidding government offices expressed a peculiarly 20th-century brand of anxiety and alienation, died on Sunday at his home in Hartland, Vt. He was 90.

70 notes Source: The New York Times #george tooker#artist#anxiety#alienation#obituary#nytimes#painting#90