Images(2)

Window II

Artist George Tooker (American, 1920 - 2011)

Date1956

MediumEgg tempera on gesso panel

DimensionsOverall: 25 x 19 in. (63.5 x 48.3 cm)
Frame: 31 3/8 x 25 3/8 x 1 5/8 in. (79.7 x 64.5 x 4.1 cm)

Credit LineBequest of James R. and Barbara R. Palmer

Object number2019.115

Collections

ClassificationsPainting

Object NamePainting

DepartmentPermanent Collection

CultureNorth American

NationalityAmerican

On View

On view

Century

Twentieth

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Signedbottom left: TOOKER

Exhibition HistoryInaugural installation: 20th Century American Galleries (112), Palmer Museum of Art, June 1, 2024–present An American Place: Selections from the James and Barbara Palmer Collection, Palmer Museum of Art, January 29–May 1, 2022 George Tooker: A Retrospective, National Academy Museum, New York, October 2, 2008–January 4, 2009; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, January 30–April 5, 2009; Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH, May 1–September 6, 2009 An Intimate Eye: Selections from the Collection of James and Barbara Palmer, Palmer Museum of Art, January 18–May 15, 2005ProvenanceEdwin Hewitt Gallery, New York Sidmore Parnes, New York, 1950s David Schneider, by inheritance Midtown Payson Galleries, New York Collection of James and Barbara Palmer, acquired in 1992 from Midtown Payson Galleries Palmer Museum of Art, bequest of James R. and Barbara R. Palmer, 2019Published ReferencesJoyce Henri Robinson, ed., A Gift From the Heart: American Art from the Collection of James and Barbara Palmer (University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013), 90, 91 (fig. 10), 92, 206 (ill., color). An Intimate Eye (University Park, PA: Palmer Museum of Art, 2005), 14 (no. 67). Robert Cozzolino, Marshall Price, and M. Melissa Wolfe, “George Tooker: A Retrospective,” American Art Review 20 (September–October 2008): 131 (ill., color). Robert Cozzolino, Marshall N. Price, and M. Melissa Wolfe, George Tooker (London and New York: Merrell, 2008), 33, 45, 134 (ill., color, pl. 28), 187. Thomas H. Garver, George Tooker (New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1985), 48, 51, 55, 57 (ill.), 63, 134. Reprinted with slightly different pagination: Thomas H. Garver, George Tooker (San Francisco: Pomegranate Artbooks, 1992), 48, 51, 56, 58 (ill., color), 64, 144.