Curator

  • Art Institute Chicago
  • Harvard art museum
  • My Exhibition
Several nude people, each with a different skin hue, relax languidly underneath trees in a rural landscape. The shapes in this painting are simplified, soft. But overall they remain recognizable. Looking upward—toward the background—an oval-shaped portal in the tree copse opens toward a pink mirage. An unconcerned, utopian group, but in somber colors.

The Drying After

1961

Bob Thompson American, 1937–1966

United States

Oil on wood panel

African American artists

African Diaspora

Contemporary Art