Bob Thompson created intensely colored figurative paintings that reworked old-master compositions through flattened silhouettes, jazz-like rhythm and modernist color. His brief career in New York and Europe produced a large body of work before his death at twenty-eight.
Painting
Major Works
- 1960Garden of Music
- 1963The Golden Ass
- 1963The Struggle
- 1961St. George and the Dragon
- 1961The Deposition
- 1961The Blue Madonna
- 1962The Judgment
- 1965Homage to Nina Simone
- 1960sUntitled (Bacchanal)
- 1960sThe Swing
Interviews & Writing
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