Los Angeles born and bred illustrator Dan Bob Thompson has an impressive history of working for both Disney and...
This work – ‘Triumph of Bacchus'(1964) – is in the collection of the Whitney Museum in New York. Bob Thompson (1937-1966) The early death of Bob Thompson shortened a career that in merely eight years managed to create a lasting impression on the art world. Blending tradition and …
Two paintings from 1964 by Bob Thompson are going up on the auction block on October 9, 2011 as part of The Collection of Richard Dorso. During his brief yet prolific career, Bob Thompson (1937-1966) became one of the first African-American painters to be embraced by the art market. The sudden death of Thompson in 1966…
In celebration of Thompson's current retrospective, 'This House Is Mine', at the Colby Museum of Art, Maine, two artists and a writer reflect on the short but prolific career of the legendary Black painter
View The Kiss By Thompson Bob; 10¼ x 8½ in. (26 x 21.5 cm.); . Access more artwork lots and estimated & realized auction prices on MutualArt.
Discover all artworks by Bob Thompson (American, 1937 - 1966) on MutualArt along with auctions, exhibitions and articles featuring the artist.
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Crucifixion
The first museum exhibition devoted to the artist Bob Thompson in more than twenty years, This House Is Mine traces the artist’s brief but prolific transatlantic career, examining his formal inventiveness and his engagement with universal themes of collectivity, bearing witness, struggle, and justice. Over a mere eight years, he grappled with the exclusionary Western canon, developing a lexicon of enigmatic forms that he threaded through his work.
Cathedral
View Charles I (A.V.D.) By Thompson Bob; oil on canvas; 20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.6 cm.); Signed; . Access more artwork lots and estimated & realized auction prices on MutualArt.
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View Diana and Her Bathers (1965) By Thompson Bob; gouache on paper; 11 x 10¼ in. (28 x 26 cm.); Signed; . Access more artwork lots and estimated & realized auction prices on MutualArt.
He was the original Jean-Michel Basquiat, his art “bursting, twisting, sticking, spilling over to get out” When he was 18, Bob Thompson thought he would go to medical school, become a doctor. Because…
Thompson wanted to author a world where the struggle between chaos and order, structure and impulse, the rational and irrational is never settled.
Thompson in Ibiza, 1962 (c) the respective photographer/ The Whitney Museum of American Art Ornette , 1960-61, 81 x 77 in. ...
View Entombment (1960) By Thompson Bob; Edition. Access more artwork lots and estimated & realized auction prices on MutualArt.
Bob Thompson – Four Bathers, 1961/62, Oil on wood | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
