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Exhibitions: Learning to Look: The Addison at 90

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Artist(s): George Tooker (Brooklyn, NY, Aug 5, 1920 - March 27, 2011, Hartland, VT)
Title: Mirror II
Date: 1963
Dimensions: 20 in. x 20 in. (50.8 cm x 50.8 cm)
Medium: Egg tempera on gesso panel
Credit Line: Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA, Gift of Donnelley Erdman (PA 1956), 1968.4

This object is a member of the following groups (click any group name to view all objects in that group):

Artists: George Tooker
Exhibitions: Learning to Look: The Addison at 90
Themes: MLC Portfolio: Visualizing Poetry

Object Information

The Addison holds the largest institutional collection of the work of the famed American figurative painter and Phillips Academy alumnus George Tooker (PA 1938). The artist generously donated his personal archive of 227 working drawings and preliminarysketches to the Addison in 1996 to form the George Tooker Study Archive.

Exhibition History

This object was included in the following exhibitions:

Alumni Treasures: Phillips Academy, Addison Gallery of American Art, 5/19/1967 - 6/18/1967
The Works, Addison Gallery of American Art, 11/7/1969 - 2/22/1970
George Tooker: Paintings 1947-1973, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, 7/13/1974 - 3/16/1975
Nothing is Certain But Change, Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/18/1975 - 5/18/1975
Masterworks of American Art from the Addison Gallery Collection, Hirschl and Adler Galleries, Inc., 10/6/1981 - 10/31/1981
George Tooker: Paintings, Marisa del Re Gallery, Inc., 2/6/1985 - 3/2/1985
George Tooker: Working Drawings, Robert Hull Fleming Museum, University of Vermont, 9/11/1987 - 11/1/1987
Boys and Girls, Men and Women, Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/12/1990 - 6/10/1990
Addison Gallery of American Art: 65 Years, Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/13/1996 - 7/31/1996
Reality and Dream: The Art of George Tooker, Ogunquit Museum of American Art Mai, Ogunquit Museum of American Art, 8/19/1996 - 9/30/1996
Art, Artists, and the Addison: Building a Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 3/30/2004 - 7/31/2004
Inside, Outside, Upstairs, Downstairs: The Addison Anew, Addison Gallery of American Art, 9/7/2010 - 3/27/2011
Open Windows: Keltie Ferris, Jackie Saccoccio, Billy Sullivan, and Alexi Worth, Addison Gallery of American Art, 1/14/2012 - 4/8/2012
Learning to Look: The Addison at 90, Addison Gallery of American Art, 5/8/2021 - 2/6/2022

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