Selected Museum Collections

Selected Museum Collections

Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center,
University of California, Los Angeles, CA
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA
Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME
Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
LaJolla Museum of Art, LaJolla, CA
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC
Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Museum of Art, Utica, NY
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Museum of the National Center of Afro American Artists, Boston, MA,
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
The Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington, DC
The Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY
The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
University of Louisville, Louisville, KY
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Solo Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions

1959		Arts in Louisville Gallery, Louisville, KY
1960		Bob Thompson, Delancey Street Museum, New York, NY
1961		Recent Paintings, Superior Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
1963		Bob Thompson, The Drawing Shop, New York, NY Bob Thompson, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY El Cosario Gallery, Ibiza, Spain
1964		Paintings and Drawings, Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, IL Bob Thompson: Gouaches, Paula Johnson (Cooper) Gallery, New York, NY
1965		East End Gallery, Provincetown, MA Bob Thompson: Paintings, Donald Morris Gallery, Detroit, MI Bob Thompson: New Paintings, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, IL
1968		Bob Thompson: Important Works in New York Collections, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY
1969		Memorial Exhibition, New School Art Center, New School For Social Research, New York, NY
1970		Paintings 1959-1966, Donald Morris Gallery, Detroit, MI
1971		Bob Thompson 1937-1966J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY
1974		Bob Thompson, University Gallery, Herter Hall, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
1975		Bob Thompson, National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC Bob Thompson: Selected Works on Paper 1960-1966, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY
1976		Bob Thompson 1937-1966: Major Work of the 60's, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY
1978		The World of Bob Thompson, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
1983		Bob Thompson 1937-1966: Major Works of the 60's, Vanderwoude-Tananbaum Gallery, New York, NY
1986		Bob Thompson, Matrix Gallery, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT Vanderwoude-Tananbaum Gallery, New York, NY
1987		Bob Thompson, Jamaica Arts Center, Jamaica, NY Bomhard Theater
1988		Vanderwoude-Tananbaum Gallery, New York, NY
1990		Vanderwoude-Tananbaum Gallery, New York, NY
1991		Vanderwoude-Tananbaum Gallery, New York, NY
1997		Bob Thompson: Heroes, Martyrs and Spectres, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
1998		Retrospective, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI Fantastic Visions, Paintings & Drawings Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
1999		Bob Thompson, G.R. N'Namdi Gallery, Birmingham, AL
2005		Bob Thompson: Meteor in a Black Hat, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, LLC, New York, NY; Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI

Group Exhibitions

Group Exhibitions

1958		First 1958 Show, Provincetown Art Festival, Provincetown, MA Second 1958 Show, Provincetown Art Association, Provincetown, MA American Art of Our Time, Provincetown Arts Festival, Provincetown, MA Drawings, City Gallery, New York, NY 1958 Louisville Art Center Annual, J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY
1959		Bob Thompson/Lester Johnson/Jay Milder, Ellison Gallery, Fort Worth, TX
1960		Jay Milder and Bob Thompson, Delancey Street Museum, New York, NY Jay Milder and Bob Thompson, Zabriskie Gallery, New York, NY The Figure in Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, The American Federation of Arts, NY The Horace Richter Collection: Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, The Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC
1962		SOS Glacerie, Paris, France Friendly Art Store, New York
1963		Moods of Light, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
1964		Exhibition of Paintings: Peter Passuntino/Bob Thompson, City Gallery, New York, NY Looking Back 1964-1949, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY International Selection 1964-1965, Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH …Some Negro Artists, Art Gallery, Fairleigh-Dickinson University, Rutherford, NJ Seven Painters, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT Christmas Exhibition, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY Circulation Library Exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY The Bird in Art, The University of Arizona Art Gallery, Tucson, AZ Cruz, Cox, Overstreet, Thompson, White, Witten: Paintings, Antiquities, New York, NY
1965		Figuration, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY Portraits in the American Art World, The New School, New York, NY Second 1965 Show, Provincetown Art Association, Provincetown, MA A Survey of Contemporary Art, J.B. Speed Museum Louisville, KY Collector’s Choice, South Bend Art Center, South Bend, IL Sixth Annual Festival, Temple Emanuel, Yonkers, NY
1966		New Figuration, Champlain Gallery, Harper College, SUNY, Binghamton, NY The Negro in American Art, California Arts Commission, University of California at Davis, Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego; The Oakland Art Museum, Oakland, CA 43 Artists from 18 Nation, The Brooklyn Center, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY The Harry N. Abrams Family Collection, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
1967		Christmas Exhibition, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY Friends of Bob Thompson Present a Group Memorial Exhibit, St. Mark’s Gallery, New York, NY
1968		The Humanist Tradition in Contemporary Painting, New School for Social Research, New York, NY The Tenants of Sam Wapnowit, The Star Turtle Gallery, New York, NY
1969		Afro-American Artists Since 1950, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY Ten Afro-Americans, Dwight Art Memorial, Mt. Holyoke College, Holyoke, MA
1970		Afro-American Artists, New York and Boston, The Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists; The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Dimensions of Black, La Jolla Museum of Art, LaJolla, CA Untitled I, Art Lending Service, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1971		Rebuttal to Whitney Museum Exhibition, Acts of Art Gallery, New York, NY 8 artistes afro-americains, Musee Rath, Geneva, Switzerland The Martha Jackson Collection, Seibu Department Store, Tokyo, Japan
1972		Concept & Content: Cage, Thompson and Tapie, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY
1973		The Private Collection of Martha Jackson, University of Maryland Art Gallery, College Park, MD; Finch College Museum of Art, New York, NY; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
1977		Provincetown Painters: 1890s - 1970s, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY Perceptions of the Spirit in Twentieth Century American Art, Indianapolis Museum of Art and Graduate Theological Union of Berkeley University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA; Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, TX; Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Columbus, OH
1980		American Figurative Painting 1950-1980, Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA
1981		Image: Self Image, Pace University Art Gallery, New York, NY The Sun Gallery, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA
1983		Celebrating Contemporary American Black Artists, Fine Arts Museum of Long Island, Hempstead, NY
1984		Underknown: 12 Artists Re-seen in 1984, The Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Long Island City, NY The Figure in 20th Century American Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY and The American Federation of Arts
1985		Sam Gilliam & Bob Thompson, Miami-Dade Community College, FL Martha Jackson Memorial Collection, National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC Expressionism: An American Beginning, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA The Gathering of the Avant-Garde: Lower East Side, Kenkeleba House, New York, NY
1986		Fetishes, Figures & Fantasies, Kenkeleba House, New York, NY Kind of Blue: Benny Andrews, Emilio Cruz, Earle Pilgrim, Bob Thompson, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA
1987		The Banks Family Collection, California Afro-American Museum, Los Angeles, CA Image to Abstraction - The 50s, Luise Ross Gallery, New York, NY
1988		Works by Artists Who Are Black, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AK The Figurative Fifties, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
1989		Figurative Work of the 50s and 60s, Vanderwoude-Tannanbaum Gallery, New York, NY Don’t You Know By Now, Philippe Briet Gallery, New York, NY Ruth S. Schaffner Collection, University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
1990		Novae: William H. Johnson and Bob Thompson, California Afro-American Museum, Los Angeles, CA Comparisons: An Exercise in Looking, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC
1991		African American Artists of the Harlem Renaissance Period and later..., Sacks Fine Art Inc., New York, NY
1992		Color as a Subject, The Artists’ Museum, New York, NY Paris Connections, Bomani Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1993		Free Within Ourselves, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC Two Painters/Two Decades: Jan Muller and Bob Thompson, Vanderwoude-Tananbaum Gallery, New York, NY
1994		African-American Art: 20th Century Masterworks, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY Empowerment: The Art of African American Artists, Krasdale Gallery, White Plains, NY
1995		African-American Art: 20th Century Masterworks II, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY; Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA Selected Pieces from the Permanent Collection, California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA
1996		African-American Art: 20th Century Masterworks III, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY Collecting African-American Expressions, Carver Federal Savings Bank, New York, NY The Walter O. Evans Collection of African-American Art, Hofstra Museum, Hempstead, NY
1997		African-American Art: 20th Century Masterworks IV, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY; Fisk University Galleries, Nashville, TN Facets of the Figure: A Spectrum of 20th Century American Art, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
1998		African-American Art: 20th Century Masterworks, V, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY; Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA Fifty Years of American Drawings, Danese Gallery, New York, NY Twentieth Century American Drawings: From the Arkansas Arts Center Foundation Collection, Arkansas, AK; Sunrise Museum, Charleston, WV; Philharmonic Center for the Arts, Naples, FL; Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN; Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN; Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID Art by African-Americans, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
1999		The American Century: Art and Culture 1900-2000, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY African-American Art: 20th Century Masterworks, VI, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY; Flint Institute of Art, Flint, MI
2000		Bob Thompson and Jan Muller, Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York, NY African-American Art: 20th Century Masterworks, VII, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY; Appleton Museum of Art, Florida State University and Central Florida Community College, Ocala, FL Michael Rosenfeld Gallery: The First Decade, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY The Figure, Another Side of Modernism, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art at Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY Twentieth-Century American Art: The Ebsworth Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA Search for the Unicorn, Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York, NY
2001		Jazz and Visual Improvisation, Katonah Art Museum, Katonah, NY African-American Art: 20th Century Masterworks, VIII, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY; Texas Southern University Museum, Houston, TX Out of the Fifties - Into the Sixties: Six Figurative Expressionists, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, LLC, New York, NY
2002		Modernism & Abstraction: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, National Academy of Design, New York, NY African-American Art: 20th Century Masterworks, IX, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY; Tubman African American Museum, Macon, GA
2003		African-American Art: 20th Century Masterworks, X, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
2004		Embracing the Muse: Africa and African American Art, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY Smart Collecting: Acquisitions 1990-2004, The Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2005		Syncopated Rhythms: 20th Century African American Art from the George and Joyce Wein Collection, Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA Eye Contact: Painting and Drawing in American Art, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, LLC, New York, NY
2006		Recent Acquisitions: Bob Thompson and Viktor Schreckengost, Smithsonian Archives of American Art, New York, NY
2007		Crossing the Line: African American Artists in the Jacqueline Bradley and Clarence Otis, Jr. Collection, The George D. and Harriet W. Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, FL Body Beware: 18 American Artists, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY Figuratively Speaking, ACME Fine Art, Boston, MA
2008		African American Art: 200 Years, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY A Thousand Kisses: Love Letters from the Archives of American Art, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
2009		Larry and Brenda Thompson Collection, David C. Driskell Center, University of Maryland, College Park, MD Il Secolo del Jazz: Arte, Cinema, Musica e Fotografia da Picasso a Basquiat (The Jazz Century: Art, Cinema, Music and Photography from Picasso to Basquiat), Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rovereto, Italy; Museé du quai Branly, Paris, France; Centre de Cultura Contemporània, Barcelona, Spain Collecting African American Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX After Image, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY