biography
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Tooker, George (Clair, Jr)
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1920– )
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| biography:
| Painter, born in New York City, New York, USA. He studied at the Art Students League, New York (1943–4), and privately with Paul Cadmus. Based in New York, he used egg tempera as his medium to paint surrealistic urban scenes in a style called ‘magic realism’ as in ‘The Subway’ (1950). |
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