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Important Bob Thompson exhibition

2012-10-24 09:32:46 -0600

The wonderful Cressman Center in downtown Louisville, Kentucky, has an exceptional – and very important – exhibition up now: Seeking Bob Thompson: Dialogue/Object.

Bob Thompson (1937-1966) studied art at the University of Louisville in the 1950s under a Hite scholarship. He subsequently left Louisville for New York, where his talent was showcased in a Whitney Museum of American Art retrospective in 1998. His colorful paintings speak for themselves, but are also ...

G. Caliman Coxe, African-American abstract artist

2012-08-03 11:27:17 -0600

For four decades G. (Gloucester) Caliman Coxe (1907-1999) was the dean of African-American artists in Louisville, Kentucky, an art scene in the 1950s and ‘60s that included such artists as Bob Thompson and Sam Gilliam, among several others.

Coxe, a native of Carlisle, Pennsylvania, lived in Louisville from 1924 until his death in 1999. In his 40s he entered the University of Louisville to study art. He was the first African-American to receive a Hite art scholarship ...