Tom George ’40 Reinvents Himself
Among the highlights in 1965 of the 25th Reunion of the class of 1940 was an exhibition in the Hopkins Center of the works of Thomas George '40. This summer, coinciding with the class's 50th Reunion, the Hood Museum has mounted an exhibition of new works of this internationally renowned abstract impressionist, pastels and oils done since 1983.
A short essay in the same catalog, by Tom George's friend Daniel J. Boorstin, Librarian of Congress Emeritus, contains this description: "An artist of the open air, he has astonished me by his restless ability to find surprising new shapes and colors in landscapes that endured in my prosaic eye for their unambiguous definition ... He has never been satisfied, as many other artists are, to spend his energies simply doing what he has proven his ability to do . . . For me, Tom George has been a living parable of the observation that the artist is someone who invents an artist. And he seems continually to be reinventing himself."
