Bob Thompson: So let us all be citizens

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

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 spanne...