Bob Thompson was an African-American figurative painter known for his bold and colorful canvases, whose compositions were appropriated from the Old Masters. His art has also been described as synthesizing Baroque and Renaissance masterpieces with the jazz-influenced Abstract Expressionist movement. A fully-illustrated exhibition catalogue, dedicated to Carol Plenda Thompson (the artist’s wife who passed in 2004), includes a preface by critic and historian Stanley Crouch and a reprint of Crouch’s provocative 1986 Village Voice article “Bob Thompson: Meteor in a Black Hat.”