Abstract
The American painter George Clair Tooker (1920-) had his first retrospective in 2008-2009. The show traveled from New York to Philadelphia, to Columbus, Ohio. This exhibition placed Tooker's realism within the Modernist tradition, emphasizing the “compelling mystery” of his work as well as his use of the egg tempera technique practiced by the early Italian masters.1 This paradox in Tooker's work, his modernity and realism, contrasted with his use of the old tempera technique, distinguishes Tooker from his contemporaries, primarily abstract expressionists like Jackson Pollock, also active during the 1940s and 1950s.
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