# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-tooker
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:04:57.407Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/george-tooker"
name: "George Tooker"
slug: "george-tooker"
description: "George Clair Tooker, Jr. was an American figurative painter. His works are associated with magic realism, social realism, photorealism, and surrealism. His subjects are depicted naturally as in a photograph, but the images use flat tones, an ambiguous perspective, and alarming juxtapositions to suggest an imagined or dreamed reality. He did not agree with the association of his work with Magic realism or Surrealism, as he said, \"I am after painting reality impressed on the mind so hard that it returns as a dream, but I am not after painting dreams as such, or fantasy.\" In 1968, he was elected to the National Academy of Design and was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Tooker was one of nine recipients of the National Medal of Arts in 2007."
tagline: "American painter from New York City (1920–2011)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/George_Tooker-George_W_Bush.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1920-08-05"
deathDate: "2011-03-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.4
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.235352000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/2251403"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Tooker"
    title: "George Tooker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Tooker"
    title: "George Tooker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Tooker"
    title: "George Tooker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Tooker"
    title: "George Tooker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Tooker"
    title: "George Tooker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Tooker"
    title: "George Tooker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Tooker"
    title: "George Tooker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q938221"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump