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Weekly Update – George Tooker’s humanist works at PAFA

By roberta | March 17, 2009

 This week’s Weekly has my review of the George Tooker retrospective at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.  Below is my copy with some pictures. 
The career retrospective of 88-year old American Modernist painter George Tooker at PAFA is a revelation.  Tooker, a student of Reginald Marsh and an astute observer of urban humanity, is far [...]

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This week’s cornucopia of wonderful things to do

By libby and roberta | March 16, 2009

Hello artblog readers. This week’s overload of fabulous activities has even us flummoxed. We wish we could do it all! With three talks at Penn in two days, we want to give Penn the Yakkity Yak Award.
TUESDAY MARCH 17
Gary Hill–NOTE:  AS OF 2 PM MONDAY, MAR. 16, THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
Hill [...]

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George Tooker–a local amazing story from PAFA

By libby and roberta | March 4, 2009

Read it first here on artblog–a scoop about the George Tooker show  from Robert Cozzolino, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts curator of modern art–and curator of this show.  He wrote:
Here’s the scoop in a nutshell…
A few weeks back, a man e-mailed me at PAFA to say he visited the Tooker show and [...]

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