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Bob (Robert Louis) Thompson (1937 - 1966)

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Lived/Active: New York/Massachusetts Known for: figurative expressionist, religion

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An Afro-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 (showing 500 of 2184 characters).

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