Images(2)

Man in a Tree

Artist George Tooker (American, 1920 - 2011)

Date1998

MediumEgg tempera on gesso panel

DimensionsOverall: 15 x 18 1/8 in. (38.1 x 46 cm), frame: 17 7/8 x 20 7/8 x 1 3/8 in. (45.4 x 53 x 3.5 cm)

Credit LineBequest of James R. and Barbara R. Palmer

Object number2019.116

Collections

ClassificationsPainting

Object NamePainting

DepartmentPermanent Collection

CultureNorth American

NationalityAmerican

On View

Not on view

Century

Twentieth

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Signedbottom right: TOOKER

Exhibition HistoryAn 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, 2005 George Tooker: Recent Paintings, DC Moore Gallery, New York, November 15–December 29, 2000ProvenanceCollection of James and Barbara Palmer, acquired in 1999 from DC Moore Gallery, New York 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), 80 (ill., color, detail), 92 (fig. 11), 93, 206 (ill., color). Cassandra Langer, “Art and Social Criticism,” The Gay & Lesbian Review / Worldwide, March–April 2009, 49. Robert Cozzolino, Marshall N. Price, and M. Melissa Wolfe, George Tooker (London and New York: Merrell, 2008), 80n8, 167 (ill., color, pl. 61), 188. An Intimate Eye (University Park, PA: Palmer Museum of Art, 2005), 14 (no. 68). Grace Glueck, “Art in Review—George Tooker,” New York Times, December 22, 2000. Nancy Grimes, George Tooker (New York: DC Moore Gallery, 2000), n.p. (ill., color).