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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)
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
ClassificationsPainting
Object NamePainting
DepartmentPermanent Collection
CultureNorth American
NationalityAmerican
On View
On viewCentury
- Twentieth
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 and traveling, October 2, 2008 – January 4, 2009; An Intimate Eye: Selections from the Collection of James and Barbara Palmer, Palmer Museum of Art, January 18 – May 15, 2005.ProvenanceEdwin Hewitt Gallery, New York
Sidmore Parnes, New York, 1950s
David Schneider, by inheritance
Acquired in 1992 from Midtown Payson Galleries, New YorkPublished ReferencesCozzolino, Robert, Marshall N. Price, and M. Melissa Wolfe, George Tooker (London: Merrell Publishers, 2008), 33, 45, 134 (ill., color, pl. 28), 187.
Cozzolino, Robert, Marshall Price, and M. Melissa Wolfe, “George Tooker: A Retrospective,” American Art Review 20 (September–October 2008): 131 (ill., color).
Garver, Thomas H., 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.
Robinson, Joyce Henri et al. A Gift From the Heart: American Art from the Collection of James and Barbara Palmer (University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013), 90,91,92, 206 (ill. 91, 206).