Richard Thomson, Author New Amsterdam Books $30 (128p) ISBN 978-0-941533-90-4
One of the most independent of the impressionists, Pissarro is a figure rich in paradox. Born in the West Indies to Jewish parents of Danish citizenship, he came from a peripatetic merchant family yet painted timeless, idyllic images of rural France.
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Richard Thomson, Author Thames & Hudson $40 (240p) ISBN 978-0-500-23509-6
Nudes comprised more than 20 percent of Degas' subject matter. His typical unclothed female is a slightly plump middle-class lady at her bath. Yet the French artist explored nudity in many guises. The symbolic figures of his Medieval War Scene and...
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Richard Thompson, Author, Richard Thomson, Author Salem House Publishers $40 (240p) ISBN 978-0-88162-113-6
Thomson argues persuasively that the dazzling techniques of Georges Seurat's colored-dot paintings have made us lose sight of the social meaning of the French painter's work. His Pointillist evocations of Paris, its suburbs and its popular...
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Richard Thomson, Rodolphe Rapetti, Francie Fowle, Anna-Marie von Bonsdorf, with a contribution by Nienke Bakker. Thames & Hudson, $60 (206p) ISBN 978-0-500-23891-2
This coffee-table-sized exhibition catalogue is dedicated to symbolist landscape painting across Europe and provides an extensive introduction to Symbolism, its practitioners, and how this movement found an apt expression in landscape painting. As...
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