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The first thing immigrants
realize and New Yorkers understand all too well are the dreaded, ever-present
lines—at the movie theater, the supermarket, the employment office,
the department of motor vehicles, the immigration service . . . and the
lines go on and on.
In Government Bureau, George Tooker depicts the impersonal, anonymous
faces of municipal employees looking out at the lines of men and women who
appear equally anonymous. While Tooker did work in New York at times, this
painting represents the red tape one experiences in any major city. Here
the employees effectively personify the impersonal government bureaucracy
while the citizenry is accordingly diminished and dehumanized. |
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