Bob Thompson: So let us all be citizens by Bob Thompson: Hardcover; 128 pages / English

Influenced by jazz, Bob Thompson painted spirited, colorful compositions that feature an interplay of bodies, allegories, and natural landscapes while reconfiguring European masterworks.

Though his career as a painter spanned only a brief period, from 1958 to his untimely death in 1966, at age twenty-eight, Thompson left behind a singular and influential body of figurative work that remains vitally resonant. Looking at his particular consideration of color, line, and figuration developed during a period when abstraction was the dominant trend in American art.

A colorful, fantastical, and musical body of work by the painter Bob Thompson “Thompson, who finally seems to be on fame’s doorstep, invents in much the same way: he makes you feel how it might have felt to see a picture of an angel for the first time.” —The New Yorker

Hardcover /  6.5 × 9.25 in | 16.5 × 23.2 cm / 96 pages / 36 illustrations