Bob Thompson’s paintings—the subject of an unmissable show at Rosenfeld, and another at 52 Walker—contain hundreds of motifs snatched from the Western canon, wedged into dense compositions, and coated in bright colors.
Bob Thompson died of a heroin overdose in 1966, a few weeks shy of his twenty-ninth birthday. In the course of the previous eight years, he’d painted more than a thousand pictures: on average, one every three days. God only knows what drove him, but I’d like to imagine that it was a B-minus on his college paper on Piero della Francesca. The paper itself, currently on display at Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, is nothing special.
Bob Thompson mixed the Old Masters and Pop-ish levels of appropriation, horsing around in the neutral zone between the passionately handmade and the coolly copied.Thompson grew up in Kentucky. His father died in a car crash when Thompson was thirteen. His mother dreamed of her son becoming a doctor—the idea, presumably, was to nudge him into a profession that could protect the family from any further misery—but he never made it past his first year in Boston University’s pre-med program.
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