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Elliott Thompson
"Eleven Thirteen, (Dancing Line Series)" Elliott Thompson, Color Field Work

1972

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Elliott Thompson Eleven Thirteen, (Dancing Line Series), 1972 Signed, Elliott Thompson, dated, 2/72, and inscribed, Eleven Thirteen, on verso and again on stretcher Acrylic on canvas 44 x 63 inches Elliott Thompson’s career as an artist spanned more than six decades but only from about 1965 to 1980 was he at the center of the art world. In that period, he was one of the painters clustered around Washington, DC who rejected the painterly forms of abstract expressionism. Instead, he preferred impersonal hard-edged shapes on monochromatic fields that reinforced the flatness of the picture surface. Thompson’s work at this time represents some of the finest examples of this style that flourished during the 1960s and 1970s. Thompson was born in Newport, Rhode Island in 1912 but he grew up in Washington, D.C. and spent most of his life in the area. He possessed a Scandinavian heritage and a middle-class background but he was only a mediocre student and dropped out of Briarly Hall Military Academy (Poolesville, MD) without a diploma. From 1929 to 1933, he joined the Navy and sailed the world through the worst part of the Great Depression. After his enlistment ended in the Navy, Thompson worked at a variety of government jobs that eventually turned into a civil service career. While employed by the U.S. government, he took classes and received a BA in accounting from Ben Franklin University (later George Washington University). In 1939, he took a job with the Bureau of the Budget and for the next 20 years existed in a world of numbers and budgets. Meanwhile, Thompson’s personal life was in turmoil. He struggled with alcohol addiction and three failed marriages. From 1953 to 1957, he lived in Paris while still working for the U.S. government. The five-year stay inspired him with a love for French culture and become an artist. Although he had never painted seriously, Thompson began studying art in Montparnasse in Paris at André Lhote’s academy. Thompson studied directly with Lhote, a Cubist painter who had an excellent reputation as a teacher. At this point, Thompson was still a part-time painter, concentrating on figurative scenes and still lifes. In 1967, Thompson was 55 years old and there was no particular reason to predict a stellar artistic career for him. However, he now had more than 30 years of service with the federal government, and so was eligible for retirement. He decided to give up his position as a financial officer in the Supply and Maintenance Agency of the U.S. Army, and devoted himself to art on a full-time basis. That same year, he began studying with Roy Slade at the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design, the school associated with the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Thompson made rapid progress with his painting. He abandoned realistic subject matter for non-figurative art and switched from oils to acrylics, lured by their faster drying time. He soon joined the faculty of the Corcoran and began exhibiting his geometric abstract canvases. By the 1970s, the long-time bureaucrat had become a critically acclaimed artist. Even in his first efforts, Thompson’s approached painting as a kind of problem in measurement and organization, as befitting a man who had worked with numbers his entire life. His earliest paintings from 1967 to 1969 were based on the division of a square, mostly in black and white, or just white on raw canvas. Many of them were neat abstractions of repetitious forms assembled on a grid. A critic at one of his exhibitions described his work as “mathematical and sequential, formal, disciplined, austere.” Even when he began introducing color into his canvases in 1971, he continued to focus on pattern and repetition. Thompson displayed his art in several group and solo shows from the late 1960s through the early 1990s. Between 1969 and 1973, his most prolific period, he had regular exhibitions at the Jefferson Place Gallery, a noted supporter of Washington Color School artists. In 1974, the Corcoran Gallery of Art presented a retrospective exhibit of his work, affirming his meteoric rise. Because Thompson lived in Washington, DC at the time, he was often linked with members of the Washington Color School such as Gene Davis, Thomas Downing, Paul Reed, and Howard Mehring. In some ways, he did not fit comfortably in this category. Thompson came late to the movement and his earliest geometric abstracts were in black and white, eschewing color. But Thompson did adopt a consciously impersonal approach to paint application. There was an absence of visible brushstrokes in Thompson’s work, and an emphasis on sharp composition. Each area was clearly defined. Instead of the broad gestures and the emotional mysticism so prized by abstract expressionists, Thompson emphasized formal elements such as lines and shapes. He never tired of this approach. In 1979, he began a major series of hard-edged geometric canvases based on the trapezoidal form. However, by 1980, the aesthetic of hard-edged abstraction had fallen out of fashion among art critics. That year, one critic reviewed one of Thompson’s gallery shows by noting that Thompson “had with dogged loyalty remained true to his straight edge, his masking tape, his panels of flat, well-chosen colors.” Though he had only been painting seriously for 13 years, he was already 68 years old. Unlike many painters, he had never staked his life on an art career. Fame meant little to him. A fourth marriage in 1983 to a woman 38 years younger was a happy distraction. From 1984 to 1987, he lived and painted in a small village in southern France but his desire to paint or teach gradually faded away. In 1987, the couple returned to the United States and moved to northern Virginia. He gradually drifted into obscurity, dying in 2016 at age 103. Elliott Thompson’s career as an artist spanned more than five decades but only from about 1965 to 1980 was he at the center of the art world. His hard-edge geometric abstracts were precise, impersonal, and devoid of almost any reference to the outside world. His best canvases offered viewers a meditative space where form, color, line, scale, and texture were almost all that mattered. He did not shine for long but he shined brightly.
  • Creator:
    Elliott Thompson (1912 - 2016, American)
  • Creation Year:
    1972
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 44 in (111.76 cm)Width: 63 in (160.02 cm)
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  • Gallery Location:
    New York, NY
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU1841211696842

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Hyams Hart, costume design by Lynne Steincamp, Premiere Lewiston, ME Short Shorts, film showing, Thread Waxing Building Space, NY 1991 Paintings and Drawings, solo exhibition, Dance Theater Workshop Gallery, NY Recent Paintings, solo exhibition, Trenkmann Gallery, NY Group Show, Robert Morrison Gallery, NY Interactions, group exhibition, Institute for Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA Once and Once, director, designer, filmmaker for theater/film production in collaboration with Keely Garfield, choreographer and C. Hyams Hart, composer, Premiere Dance Theater Workshop, NY Five Films, film showing, Dance Theater Workshop, NY Garden Party, set design for dance production by Claire Porter, Premiere Dance Theater Workshop, NY Intimate and Not So Intimate, set design for dance production, choreographed by Blondell Cummings, Premiere St. Marks Dance Space, NY 1990 New Paintings, solo exhibition, Time Life Building, NY Paintings and Photographs, two-person exhibition, Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY 30 Stories, set design, theater production by Ain Gordon, Premiere P.S. 122, NY Cartoon, set design, dance production choreographed by Keely Garfield, Premiere Dance Theater Workshop, NY Ringer Pike, co-director and set design, multimedia stage production by Dale Worsley, Premiere Hall Walls, Buffalo, NY Dinizulu and His African Dancers and Singers, set design for video production by Skip Blumberg, NY 1989 Recent Work, solo exhibition, Souyun Yi Gallery, NY New Painting, solo exhibition, The Harrison Gallery, Boca Raton, FL Restructure/Subtracting the Grid, group show, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ Set Drawings for Modern Dance, group exhibition, Harvard Theater Collection, Cambridge, MA Postcards, set design for video production by Mark Rappaport, NY Quad, set design for video, dance production by Samuel Becket, Global Village Production, NY Moon, film premiere, Equitable Center Theater, Whitney Museum, NY Film/Video Arts Angel Award Showcase, film showing, Museum of Broadcasting, NY 1988 Paintings: 1971–1988, solo exhibition, Hurlbutt Gallery, Greenwich, CT Recent Paintings, solo exhibition, PMW Gallery, Stamford, CT Drawings for Sets and Films, solo exhibition, Dance Theater Workshop Gallery, NY Wilderness, director, designer, filmmaker for theater/film production in collaboration with Catlin Cobb, choreographer, Stephen Fechter, writer, A. Leroy, composer, Premiere Dance Theater Workshop, NY The Joys and Enigmas of a Strange Hour, set design, Dance Theater Workshop, NY 1987 New Paintings, solo exhibition, painting, Souyun Yi Gallery, NY Boothe and Zetterstrom, two-person exhibition, drawing, Almquist Gallery, New Preston, CT Twenty Summers Past, group exhibition, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO House Keeping, set design for dance production in collaboration with Catlin Cobb, choreographer, Premiere Dance Theater Workshop, NY The Event of the Year, set design for dance production choreographed by Emily Keeler for Jacques d’Amboise’s National Dance Institute, Premiere San Francisco Opera House, CA Keeping up with the Eighties, set design for theater production in collaboration with Michael Smith and A. Leroy, Premiere Dance Theater Workshop, NY Beside Herself, 16mm film, Premiere Performance Space 122, NY Our Man, 16mm film, Premiere Dance Theater Workshop, NY Films by Artists, group film showing, White Columns Gallery, NY Naked Eye Cinema, group film showing, Zone Gallery, NY Art Mix 87, film showing, Avenue B, NY 1986 New Paintings, solo exhibition, Lynn Mayhew Gallery, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, OH Drawings and Notations for Post-Modern Dance, group exhibition, Harvard University Theater Collection, Cambridge, MA Low Tide, set design for dance production, Catlin Cobb, choreographer, Premiere Dance Theater Workshop, NY Transparent Means for Traveling Light, set design for dance production in collaboration with David Gordon, John Cage, composer, Premiere Loeb Theater, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA and Brooklyn Academy of Music, NY Overture, 16mm film, Premiere Dance Theater Workshop, NY New Film Works, group film showing, curated by Amy Taubin, The Kitchen, NY Avant Garde Arama, group film showing, Performance Space 122, NY 1984 Currents, solo exhibition, Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston, MA Modern Art, group exhibition, selected by John Yau, Ted Greenwald Gallery, NY Illusion in Contemporary Art, group exhibition, Trompe L’Oeil Gallery, NY 8 in ’84, group exhibition, Ronald Feldman Gallery, NY Framework, set design for dance production, in collaboration with David Gordon, choreographer, Premiere Dance Theater Workshop, NY and Loeb Theater, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Variety Show, set design for dance production in collaboration with choreographer Charles Moulton and composer A. 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Hyams Hart, composer 1989 Pollock/Krasner Foundation Grant for painting Film Video Arts, Angel Award for film 1988 Maryland Institute Trustees Award for Teaching Excellence National Endowment for the Arts Inter-Arts Grant For Wilderness, a multi-media theater/film collaboration Foundation for Contemporary Performance Art Art Matters, Inc., Grant 1987 New York State Council on the Arts Grant 1986 New York State Council on the Arts Grant For Transparent Means for Traveling Light, a collaboration with David Gordon and John Cage Art Matters, Inc., Grant Yaddo Fellow for painting and writing New York State Council on the Arts Grant Massachusetts Arts Council Grant For Transparent Means for Traveling Light production at Loeb Theater 1985 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship for painting Asian Cultural Council Fellowship for independent study in Japan Just Above Midtown Production Grant National Endowment for the Arts Inter-Arts Grant For “Mike’s House,” a video production in collaboration with Michael Smith 1984 National Endowment for the Arts Inter-Arts Grant For “Variety Show,” in collaboration with Charles Moulton Massachusetts Arts Council Grant, 1984 For “Framework,” a dance project in collaboration with David Gordon New York Art and Performance Award (Bessie Award) New York State Council on the Arts Grant For Trying Times, a dance project collaboration with David Gordon, choreographer 1982 Institute for Art and Urban Resources for one-year residency at P.S. 1 1976 National Endowment for the Arts, Artist Fellowship for painting 1971 Theodoran Award, Guggenheim Museum, for traveling exhibition, Ten Young Artists, purchase award Hartford Art School, University of Hartford 2011 - present Professor of Painting and Drawing University of Hartford, 2001–2010 Dean, Hartford Art School Ohio University, 1998–2001 Director, School of Art Maryland Institute, College of Art, 1993–1998 Co-Director, Mt. Royal Graduate School, and Artist and Critic-in- Residence Princeton University, 1988–1995 Lecturer in the Humanities, Visual Arts Program School of Visual Arts, 1979–1988 Instructor Colorado College, 1977 Director, Painting and Drawing Summer Program 2014-2015 Faculty Humanities Center Fellow, Lecture: Complexity and Art-making, University of Hartford Humanities Center Lecture Series, Spring 2015, Theme: Exploring Complexity 2008–2009 Chair, University of Hartford’s Academic Strategic Planning Committee 2007–2012 Delegate, Commission on Accreditation, National Association of Schools of Art and Design 2005–2012 Accreditation Chair, Evaluation Teams to assess schools for National Association of Schools of Art and Design accreditation 2000 Director of Art-Body-Mind: An Integration, four-day symposium at Ohio University ¬Presenters: Mark Johnson, Lewis Hyde, Ellen Dissanayake, Joseph Caroll, Brian Hansen, Nancy Aiken and others 1998 Curator of Chance + Necessity, a painting exhibition at Maryland Art Place (MAP) ¬Wrote catalogue essay 1986–1998 Co-Director (with composer, Dick Connette) of Present Company, Inc., Not-for-Profit Production Company in New York, NY to produce original theater and film projects ¬Produced two-multi-media theater events and five independent short films ¬Designed sets for Obie Award-winning off-Broadway theater productions, including Richard Foreman’s Ontological Hysteric Theater and Mabou Mines theater company ¬Designed sets for dance productions in collaboration with choreographers, including Doug Varone, Dave Gordon, and David Parsons, and with composers Virgil Thompson, Philip Glass, and Dick Connett GRANT PANELS AND JURIES 2015 ¬Art directed and designed film productions, including Michael Snow, Mark Rappaport, Babette Mangold and Richard Foreman, resulting national awards ¬ Production design and art direction for many videos, including Cyndi Lauper, Dion, and Jean Luc Ponty, resulting in international video awards Juror, Abstraction Exhibition, Colorado Sprints Art Center, Colorado Springs, NY Panel, Five Points Gallery, Torrington, CT Juror, Colorado Springs Arts Center, CO 2014 Juror, Mystic Art Center, Mystic Seaport, CT 2010 Juror, Alliance for Young Artists, NY Juror, ArtSpace. Hartford, CT 2009 Juror, ArtSpace. Hartford, CT Juror, West Hartford Art League, CT 2006 Juror, Mystic Art Center, Mystic Seaport, CT Juror, Silvermine Art Center, CT 2004 Juror, West Hartford Art League, CT 2002 Juror, Exhibition, Gallery on the Green, Canton, CT 1999 Freedom of Speech in the Arts, Panel at Ohio University, OH 1997 Fulbright Committee, Maryland Institute College of Art, MD Juror for 7th Annual Pennsylvania Juried Exhibition, PA 1994 National Endowment, Presenting and Commissioning Program, Washington, DC 1991 New York State Council for the Arts, Film Panel, NY 1989 National Endowment for the Arts, Inter-Arts Panel, Washington, DC 1986 National Endowment for the Arts, Inter-Arts Panel, Washington, DC VISITING ARTIST AND LECTURER 2015 Lecture on Abstraction, Colorado Springs Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO Lecture on Abstraction, Worthington Historical Society, Worthington Corners, Worthington, MA 2014 Mystic Art Center, Mystic Seaport, CT Workshop on Composition; Workshop on Value and Color 2010-11 New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT Five lectures titled: “Art Matters” 2010 Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT Connecticut Art Education Association 2007 Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT West Hartford Art League, West Hartford, CT 2005 Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 2002 Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT Center for Art and Culture, Aix-en-Provence, France 1999 University of Minnesota, MN Emporia University, KS Columbia Festival for the Arts, Columbia, MD St. Mary’s College of Maryland, St Mary’s City, MD 1977 Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, PA Kennedy Center, Washington, DC 1995 Pennsylvania Academy of Art, Philadelphia, PA The Cooper Union, New York, NY Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 1994 Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ Messiah College, Grantham, PA 1991 Trinity College, Hartford, CT Institute for Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA 1990 Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY Maryland Art Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD 1987 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA 1986 Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, OH 1984 Film/Video International, Castle Hill, MA 1982 Rutgers College, New Brunswick, NJ 1978 Pratt Institute, New York, NY 1976 Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD EDUCATION Colorado College, BA, 1969; Honorary Doctorate of Arts, 1989 PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS 2005–PRESENT 1998–PRESENT 1986–PRESENT 1983–PRESENT PUBLICATIONS Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, 1967–1968 American School of Classical Studies in Athens, Greece, 1990 Post-graduate research in classical archeology University of California at Berkeley, CA, 1996 Post-graduate research associate in philosophy and cognitive studies Wadsworth Atheneum, Board (serve on the Education Committee) National Association of Schools of Art and Design College Art Association American Abstract Artists “Chance + Necessity,” Catalog Essay for Chance and Necessity, an Exhibition of Abstract Painting, MAP Publication, 1998. “Out of Balance, A Study of Mondrian’s Dynamic Equilibrium Concept,” American Abstract Artists Journal, NO. 2, AAA Publications, 1996. “Notes on Abstract/Meaning,” American Abstract Artists Journal, No. I, AAA Publications, 1996. “On Painting,” Meaning, Volume II. Segue Foundation, 1987. “When the Fourth Soldier Falls, A Study of Piero Della Francisca’s Resurrection,” Issue, Volume 6, Reflex Horizons, Ltd., 1986. BIBLIOGRAPHY Acocella, Joan, “Power Boothe on Two Edges,” The Village Voice, February 20-26, 1991, review with photo. _____, Joan, “New York Reviews,” Dance Magazine, September 1988, review with photo. Ashton, Dore, American Art Since 1945 (Oxford University Press), 1982, pages 159-160, with photo. _____, “Power Boothe’s Gait,” Arts Magazine, June 1981, article with photos. _____, “Painting Endures,” Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, 1975, catalogue with photo. Baker, Kenneth, “Inauspicious Content in a New ICA Form,” Boston Phoenix, May 17, 1975, review. Bannon, Anthony, “Members Gallery, Albright Knox,” Buffalo Evening News, April 15, 1977, review. Bell, Jane, Arts Magazine, January 1974, review with photo. Betz, Margaret, “Power Boothe (A.M. Sachs),” Art News, May 1976, review with photo. 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2010s Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil

Untitled
By Laddie John Dill
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled Watercolor on paper. 1971 Unsigned Sheet size: 24 x 19 inches Condition: Excellent From the collection of Ileana Sonnabend (1914-2007) Laddie John Dill, a Los Angeles artist...
Category

1970s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

Colorful Abstract Silkscreen by Stephen Ellis
By Stephen Ellis
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Stephen Ellis, American (1951 - ) Title: Untitled Year: 1993 Medium: Silkscreen, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 12/20 Paper Size: 34 x 26 inches
Category

1990s Abstract Abstract Prints

Materials

Screen

Untitled XCII, Abstract Colorfield Acrylic Painting on Paper by Jay Rosenblum
By Jay Rosenblum
Located in Long Island City, NY
This acrylic painting on paper was created by New York-born artist Jay Rosenblum. In his art, he seeks to correlate his great love for chamber music sonatas with freely evolving blocks of color which like the notes in the music transform the work into a cohesive form of art. This piece is signed in pencil, and measures 40 x 22...
Category

1970s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic