George Tooker will always be part of Windsor

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Late last month, famous American artist, George Tooker passed away. Tooker received the 2007 National Medal of Art and lived in nearby Hartland, VT for many years. Windsor is lucky enough to have an incredible original 7 panel mural depicting the seven sacraments, at St. Francis of Assisi.

You can read more about the egg tempera paintings that he gave to the church in this article, "George Tooker: Small -town church, big-time artist", more about the man in this New York Times article, or a wonderful interview from Vermont Public Radio's, Nina Keck here.

If you haven't, take a minute to look through some of Tooker's work. It is haunting and profoundly beautiful. As curator, Robert Cozzolino said in Keck's interview,

One of the things that is exciting about George's work that will make them really remain in the minds of viewers for centuries to come is that he managed to say a lot through his visual depiction of the world around him and the human condition."