his privilege and his empathy for those with less. Personal life Tooker was in a relationship with the artist Paul Cadmus from 1944-1949 and was a part of the PaJaMa artists collective during that time. He is featured, often nude, in many of their images from that period. In the mid-1950's Tooker met his long time partner, painter William R. Christopher, and they lived together in New York City. They moved into a house they had built in Hartland, Vermont in 1960. The couple were involved in the Civil Rights Movement and participated in one of the Selma to Montgomery marches in 1965. He taught at the Art Students League of New York from 1965 to 1968. He spent his winters in Málaga, Spain. A few years after Christopher's 1973 death, Tooker converted to Catholicism. His faith was very important to him, as he was very much involved with his local church. Tooker died at the age of 90 in his Hartland, Vermont, home due to kidney failure. Further reading to view a gallery of his works: http://avax.news/educative/Artworks_by_George_Tooker.html or https://landlordrocknyc.wordpress.com/tag/the-ward/ George Tooker. David Tunkl Gallery, Los Angeles 1980. Text by Merry A. Foresta; George Tooker. Thomas Garver 1985 Imago: Creative DirectorArnold Skolnick George Tooker, Reality Recurs as a Dream 1920-2011 (exhibition catalogue), DC Moore Gallery, 2012 George Tooker, (exhibition catalogue), DC Moore Gallery, 2000 George Tooker, (exhibition catalogue), DC Moore Gallery, 1998 George Tooker papers, 1932-1973, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution "George Tooker", by Robert Cozzolino, Marshall N. Price and M. Melissa Wolfe. Merrell Publishers Ltd. 2008, London and New York [exhibition catalogue for "George Tooker: A Retrospective", 2008-2009] References External links Progressive Living resource Comprehensive biography and gallery Columbus Museum of Art Web page on Tooker's 1964 painting Lunch (click on picture for larger image) The Essence of Magic Realism - Critical Study of the origins and development of Magic Realism in art. Ten Dreams Galleries Figureworks.com/20th Century work at www.figureworks.com George Tooker artist page, DC Moore Gallery George Tooker, "Capturing Modern Anxieties" Online Exhibition, George Tooker: Embrace of Peace at POBA Where the Arts Live 1920 births 20th-century American painters American male painters 21st-century American painters 21st-century American male artists Harvard University alumni Converts to Roman Catholicism from Anglicanism Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters United States National Medal of Arts recipients Art Students League of New York faculty Art Students League of New