The Toronto Cycle #21 – Between Bayview and Yonge

Born in 1936, Thompson has exhibited internationally since the 1960’s and is represented in major collections including Tate. In addition to his work as a painter he has been a uniquely influential educationalist, curator and writer. Responsible, as Dean of Fine Art, for the development of Goldsmiths College as the hotbed of new talent in this country and afterwards Head of Fine Art at the Jan Van Eyck Akademie in Maastricht, Thompson was also curator of many important exhibitions, including Falls the Shadow (1986, with Barry Barker) and Gravity and Grace (1993) at the Hayward Gallery. He curated the exhibition Inner Worlds Outside (2006) at the Whitechapel Gallery and the Irish Museum of Modern Art. Thompson is also author of numerous artist monographs and other texts and essays, many of which are published in ‘The Collected Writings of Jon Thompson’, (Ridinghouse, 2011).

Places

Subjects

rectangle, square, abstract

Materials & Techniques

canvas, oil, oil painting

Artist

Jon Thompson (1936 - 2016)

Title

The Toronto Cycle #21 – Between Bayview and Yonge

Date

2012

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 178.00 cm, width: 153.00 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Anthony Reynolds Gallery, March 2015

Inscription

verso on mid stretcher bar right: JON THOMPSON

Provenance

With Anthony Reynolds gallery, from whom purchased April 2015

GAC number

18639