Supper MAG(4)
Week 10 Gratitude ( 946 – 950) 12/10 – 12/14/2017
Id 947
George Tooker American 1920 - 2011
Supper , 1963
Tempera on board
George Tooker painted Supper in 1963. That year was marked by great strife and bloodshed in America, including boycotts, the killing of activist Medgar Evers, and the bombing of a church in Birmingham, Alabama that killed four young girls. The artis participated in the Civil Rights Movement and found great inspiration in the work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
It was during this period that Tooker created his “protest paintings,” of which Supper is one. In the biblical story of the Supper at Emmaus, Jesus appeared as a stranger to two disciples after the Crucifixion. The discriples invited the stranger to supper, recognizing him as Jesus only when he blessed and broke the bread. In Supper, Tooker depicts Jesus as an African American man in the moment preceding the revelation of his identity.
Marion Stratton Gould Fund, 2007.19
From the placard: The Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Tooker
www.nytimes.com/2011/03/29/arts/design/george-tooker-pain...
americanart.si.edu/artwork/waiting-room-24195
Supper MAG(4)
Week 10 Gratitude ( 946 – 950) 12/10 – 12/14/2017
Id 947
George Tooker American 1920 - 2011
Supper , 1963
Tempera on board
George Tooker painted Supper in 1963. That year was marked by great strife and bloodshed in America, including boycotts, the killing of activist Medgar Evers, and the bombing of a church in Birmingham, Alabama that killed four young girls. The artis participated in the Civil Rights Movement and found great inspiration in the work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
It was during this period that Tooker created his “protest paintings,” of which Supper is one. In the biblical story of the Supper at Emmaus, Jesus appeared as a stranger to two disciples after the Crucifixion. The discriples invited the stranger to supper, recognizing him as Jesus only when he blessed and broke the bread. In Supper, Tooker depicts Jesus as an African American man in the moment preceding the revelation of his identity.
Marion Stratton Gould Fund, 2007.19
From the placard: The Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Tooker
www.nytimes.com/2011/03/29/arts/design/george-tooker-pain...
americanart.si.edu/artwork/waiting-room-24195