Tooker, George
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Tooker, George (1920– ). American painter. He studied at the
Art Students League of New York, 1943–4. His teachers there included
Reginald Marsh, and it was from him and
Paul Cadmus (with whom he studied privately) that he acquired his preference for painting in egg
tempera. His technique is scrupulously detailed in the manner of the Old Masters, but his subjects express the spiritual desolation and debilitating uniformity of modern life. The figures in his paintings all look more or less like one another and go through life as if on a conveyer belt, tense and drained of energy. They are physically close to one another, but emotionally distant.
Subway (1950, Whitney Mus., New York) is perhaps his most famous work—a terrifying vision of Kafkaesque isolation.
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Le Nain de Tillemont et l'historiographie de l'Antiquité romaine: Actes de Colloque international organisé par le Centre Le Nain de Tillemont et tenu à la Fondation Singer-Polignac présidée par Monsieur Édouard Bonnefous les 19 et 20 novembre 1998 et à l'Institut de France le 21 novembre 1998
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review; 10/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; Le Nain de Tillemont et l'historiographie de l...Colloque international organis par le Centre Le Nain de Tillemont et tenu la Fondation Singer...the death of the French scholar Sbastien Le Nain de Tillemont (1637-1698).The papers...
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Un noeud gordien chez Balzac: le nain bossu de Modeste Mignon.(le personnage de Jean Butscha)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: French Forum; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...regain d'interet actuel pour le roman. (1) Batard orphelin, nain bossu et soupirant sans espoir...grotesque, mi-sublime: le "nain mysterieux" (MM 472) a la...son appui a Isabelle Vere dans Le Nain noir de Walter Scott (cf. MM...
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The crustal structure of the southern Nain and Makkovik provinces of Labrador derived from refraction seismic data.(Report)
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences; 4/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...la suite plutonique de Nain (NPS), datant du Mesoproterozoyque...des coups de canon a air le long d'une ligne d...temps de propagation. Le modele de vitesse differencie...zones distinctives. Dans le bloc Saglek de la province de Nain, la croute est divisee...
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Colour is key to cutting edge design; n open house KEN NAIN AND ELLEN CONLIN-NAIN, BEARSDEN
Newspaper article from: Evening Times; 11/6/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...because it is big and sumptuous. It's warm and doesn't look out of place in our modern home. What is your best buy? A set of Le Creuset pots and casserole dishes. Although they are expensive they last forever and the quality of food they turn out is phenomenal...
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L'archange et l'aigle: Tournier face a Hugo dans Le Medianoche amoureux.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: French Forum; 1/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...Ottmar a ete etrangle par Lucain, le nain de Tiphaine. Colombelle meurt en mettant...du texte hugolien une fois combles, le lecteur eut ete en droit de s'attendre...qui celebre la victoire de Jacques, le nain Lucain vient lire au jeune ecuyer la...
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great works
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 10/12/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...and the peasant paintings of Louis Le Nain. La Bruyre's contribution is a...description is often juxtaposed with Le Nain's painting. It's simply the only...and pictures is really uncrossable. Le Nain's peasants are unmistakably human...
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Where do stories begin and end? The example of Marc Petit.
Magazine article from: International Fiction Review; 1/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...auto-da-fe in Candide. Le Nain geant (The Giant Dwarf...to the hiding place of the nain geant, compares himself...Channel and in America" (Nain 119). There is also something of the detective novel in Le Troisieme Faust (The Third...
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 "The Racing Post (London, England)")
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Horse Racing: Guy de Rothschild, owner of Arc hero Exbury, dies at 98.(Sports)
Newspaper article from: The Racing Post (London, England); 6/15/2007; 700+ words
; ...Manoir, White Label, Soleil Noir and Le Nain Jaune, and Prix du Jockey-Club...and came second in the St Leger; Le Nain Jaune, who in 1982 became his fourth...Indian Rose (1988 Prix Vermeille). Le Nain Jaune and Indian Rose were out of...
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A paradox at the Louvre? The museum's success in recent acquisitions may threaten its future WEEKEND ARTS
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 6/6/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...painting recently reattributed to Louis Le Nain, one of the three brothers famous...is a religious scene unusual in the Le Nain brothers' oeuvre. The characters...forecasts four or five fold. The Le Nain was a must, and the museum got it...
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Reinventing the Old Masters Thomas Sutcliffe's Notebook
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 2/3/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...over 130 years later it had become a Le Nain and it only entered the Caravaggio...fashionable, it can be a Murillo. When Le Nain is in vogue it'll quite happily be a Le Nain. And when a Caravaggio is the object...
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Antoine, Louis and Mathieu Le Nain
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Antoine, Louis and Mathieu Le Nain The brothers Antoine (1588-1648...1648), and Mathieu (1607-1677) Le Nain were French painters of genre, religious...and portraits. The work of the Le Nain family, and especially that of Louis...
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Le Nain
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Le Nain , family of French painters consisting of three brothers: Antoine Le Nain, 1588?-1648, Louis Le Nain, 1593?-1648, and Mathieu Le Nain, 1607-77. They went to...
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Le Nain, Antoine
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
Le Nain, Antoine (d. 1648), Louis (d. 1648), and Mathieu ( c. 1607–...whose sympathetic and unaffected peasant scenes are the main reason why the Le Nains have attracted so much attention.
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France, Art in
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...geometric forms and an overall smoothness of texture. The Le Nain brothers, Antoine (1588 – 1648), Louis...been depicted as objects of either derision or satire. Le Nain's peasants are poor, but clearly well fed and clothed...
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Feuillade, Louis
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
...batailles de l'argent], Le chef-lieu de Canton, Le destin des mères, Tant que vous serez heureux ; 1912: L'accident, Les braves gens, Le nain, Le pont sur l'Abime ; 1913: S'affranchir ) 1912 Amour...
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