The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
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1937 Louisville, Kentucky - 1966 Rome, Italy. Known for: Figurative expressionist painting, religion.
An African-American, Bob Thompson had success in the 1960s as an artist, which was unusual for black artists of that era and led to his becoming a pivotal figure for African-American artists and for... Read full biography
An African-American, Bob Thompson had success in the 1960s as an artist, which was unusual for black artists of that era and led to his becoming a pivotal figure for African-American artists and for art historians. However, his life was cut short when he died in Rome in 1966 just before his... Read full biography
An African-American, Bob Thompson had success in the 1960s as an artist, which was unusual for black artists of that era and led to his becoming a pivotal figure for African-American artists and for art historians. However, his life was cut short when he died in Rome in 1966 just before his twenty-ninth birthday. Thompson was a modernist who adapted Paul Gauguin's Fauvist use of interlocking planes of bright colors. He often used Biblical subjects, and created an effect of idealized, faceless... Read full biography
An African-American, Bob Thompson had success in the 1960s as an artist, which was unusual for black artists of that era and led to his becoming a pivotal figure for African-American artists and for art historians. However, his life was cut short when he died in Rome in 1966 just before his twenty-ninth birthday. Thompson was a modernist who adapted Paul Gauguin's Fauvist use of interlocking planes of bright colors. He often used Biblical subjects, and created an effect of idealized, faceless figures. Among his paintings were Flagellation of Christ and St. George and the Dragon. Living among avant-garde artists in New York City, where he briefly had a studio on Rivington Street, and in Provincetown, Massachusetts, he was at odds with the... Read full biography
An African-American, Bob Thompson had success in the 1960s as an artist, which was unusual for black artists of that era and led to his becoming a pivotal figure for African-American artists and for art historians. However, his life was cut short when he died in Rome in 1966 just before his twenty-ninth birthday. Thompson was a modernist who adapted Paul Gauguin's Fauvist use of interlocking planes of bright colors. He often used Biblical subjects, and created an effect of idealized, faceless figures. Among his paintings were Flagellation of Christ and St. George and the Dragon. Living among avant-garde artists in New York City, where he briefly had a studio on Rivington Street, and in Provincetown, Massachusetts, he was at odds with the prevalent Pop and Op art style of the time. He was also rebellious in that he... Read full biography
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Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005Davenport, Ray2,421 pagesWho Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)3,724 pagesBob Thompson
1998Golden, Thelma200 pages (color)Collecting African American Art Works on Paper and Canvas
1998Taha, Halima270 pages (color)Black Art and Culture in the 20th Century
1997Powell, Richard J256 pages (color)Greenville County Museum of Art The Southern Collection
1995Severens, Martha R289 pages (color)African American Art
1994
(Exhibition catalog)San Antonio Museum of Art67 pages (color)Free Within Ourselves: African-American Artists in the Collection of the National Museum of American Art
1993Perry, Regina A203 pages (color)African American Artists 1880-1987 Selections from the Evans-Tibbs Collection
1989McElroy, Guy C (others)125 pages (color)The Figurative Fifties New York Figurative Expressionism
1988
(Exhibition catalog)Schimmel, Paul195 pages (color)Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition)
1987Cummings, Paul653 pagesChicago, Museum of Contemporary Art Selections from Permanent Collection
1984Chicago, Museum Contemporary164 pages (color)World Artists 1950-1980
1984Marks, Claude912 pagesThe Figure in 20th Century American Art Metropolitan Museum of Art
1984
(Exhibition catalog)Sims, Lowery Stokes167 pages (color)American Figure Painting 1950-198
1980
(Exhibition catalog)Styron, Thomas W115 pages (color)Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics)
1979Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel736 pagesArt: African American
1978Lewis, Samella246 pages (color)Perceptions of the Spirit in Twentieth-Century American Art
1977
(Exhibition catalog)Dillenberger, Jane & John175 pages (color)Provincetown Painters 1890's-1970's
1977
(Exhibition catalog)Everson Museum of Art289 pagesAmistad II Afro-American Art
1975
(Exhibition catalog)Driskell, David C92 pagesWhitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection
1974Baur, John I H235 pages (color)Afro-American Artists: A Bio-Bibliographical Directory
1973Cederholm, Theresa Dickason348 pagesThe Afro-American Artist A Search for Identity
1973Fine, Elsa Honig310 pages (color)Afro-American Artists New York and Boston
1970
(Exhibition catalog)National Cent/Afro-Am Artists80 pages