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    Artist

  • Schiff, John, 1907-1976

    Thompson, Bob, 1937-1966

    • Title

  • Leroi and Barbara in the Cedar / B. Thompson, 1960

  • Physical Description

    1 photograph : black-and-white ; 10 x 8 inches / 25.5 x 20.5 cm., digital photograph

  • Summary

    The image shows a photograph of a work by Bob Thompson of Leroi Jones and Barbara sitting next to each other at the Cedar bar. Thompson has titled, signed and dated the artwork in the lower left corner. The verso of the photograph has a John D. Schiff photography stamp and "Bob Thompson / Leroi (Jones) and Barbara in the Cedar (bar) 1960 / [inh] on pp 16 1/2 x 13 3/4 / coll: Carol Thompson" written in pencil.

  • Depicted

    Baraka, Amiri, 1934-2014

  • Subject

    Artists; Portraits; Drawing, American

  • Genre

    Photographs; Drawings

  • Part Of

    John (Hans) and Trude Schiff Collection, AR 25082

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Biographical/Historical Information

Bob Thompson was an African-American figurative painter known for his bold and colorful canvases. He was greatly influenced by the Old Masters in the compositions he represented. He was prolific in his eight-year career, producing more than 1,000 works before his death in Rome in 1966.

Writer LeRoi Jones, later known as Amiri Baraka, and Thompson were inseparable for a time during the early 1960s. Their kinship manifested itself in a suite of poems Jones composed for the artist during his lifetime and “The Occident,” a poem written for Thompson’s funeral.

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Citation

Schiff, John: Leroi and Barbara in the Cedar / B. Thompson, 1960, Leo Baeck Institute, F 173 AR 25082.