The Waiting Room Painting

The waiting room gallery. George tooker grew frustrated with the bureaucracy while trying to obtain building permits for a house he bought in new york. Two short films follow the lives of women in a doctors waiting room as they find out if they have breast cancer and their individual journeys after they receive life changing diagnoses.
the waiting room painting

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The waiting room painting. Tookers painting ward renders patients anonymity and a sense of abandonment in the hospital setting with government bureaucracy invoked by the american flags hanging on the wall see p. 584 x 711 cm. The waiting room was created in 1959 by george tooker in magic realism style. This artwork will be painted by an experienced artist.

Commission your own museum quality hand painted reproduction of the waiting room on a high quality cotton linen canvas originally by artist george tooker. The painting was inspired by tookers own frustration waiting for building permits and he says the waiting room is a kind of purgatory people just waiting waiting to wait. Read 1200 customer reviews. It is not living the depiction of liminal space as a kind of purgatory is used throughout tookers works.

Johnson son inc 19694743. A waiting room facility for longport railway station affordable space for hire and a gallery full of local art we are. In that painting the waiting people are reproduced several times to emphasize their anonymity and the multiple bureaucrats peer out from frosted windows with only their eyes and noses visible bringing to mind the concept of the medical gaze promulgated by the french philosopher michel foucault. After receiving life changing diagnoses two women learn courage is more than skin deep in the waiting room premiering october 17 at 98c.

George tooker the waiting room 1959 egg tempera on wood smithsonian american art museum gift of sc.