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Esmé Thompson, Blue Divide, 2005, forty-nine piece installation, acrylic on tin (concave galvanized maple sugar bucket lids). Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College: Purchased through the William S. Rubin Fund; 2008.11.
Esmé Thompson
Blue Divide
2005
Forty-nine piece installation, acrylic on tin (concave galvanized maple sugar bucket lids).
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College: Purchased through the William S. Rubin Fund; 2008.11. Esmé
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Esmé Thompson, Cleopatra, 2008, acrylic on board. Collection of the artist.
Esmé Thompson
Cleopatra
2008
Acrylic on board.
Collection of the artist.
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Esmé Thompson, Credo, 2005, acrylic on board. Collection of the artist.
Esmé Thompson
Credo
2005
Acrylic on board.
Collection of the artist.
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Esmé Thompson, Liggia I, 2003, acrylic on canvas. Collection of the artist.
Esmé Thompson
Liggia I
2003
Acrylic on canvas.
Collection of the artist.
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Esmé Thompson, Ornamentum I, 2004, acrylic on canvas. Collection of the artist.
Esmé Thompson
Ornamentum I
2004
Acrylic on canvas.
Collection of the artist.
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Esmé Thompson, Beatus II, 2003, thirteen-piece installation, acrylic on metal. Collection of the artist.
Esmé Thompson
Beatus II
2003
Thirteen-piece installation, acrylic on metal.
Collection of the artist.
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Esmé Thompson, Lisant IV, 2009, acrylic on canvas. Collection of the artist.
Esmé Thompson
Lisant IV
2009
Acrylic on canvas.
Collection of the artist.
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Esmé Thompson, After Pisanello, 2007, collage. Collection of the artist.
Esmé Thompson
After Pisanello
2007
Collage.
Collection of the artist.
Location
Temporary Exhibitions, Friends and Cheatham Galleries
About
Esmé Thompson envelops her creative enterprise in the colors and complexities to be found in the visual “surfaces” of textiles, illuminated manuscripts, and the botanical world. Her art also embraces the work of other painters whom she admires, particularly Renaissance masters and the remarkably unique paintings French artist Edouard Vuillard (1868–1940). This exhibition of twenty-eight paintings and collages, plus a recent work in glazed ceramic, focuses on the last five to six years of her creative practice and demonstrates the full flowering of her interest in design and pattern. It is also a tribute to the artist’s career as a professor in Dartmouth College’s Studio Art Department, where she has worked for the last three decades.
Organized by the Hood Museum of Art and generously supported by Kate and Yaz Krehbiel, Class of 1991, Thayer 1992, and the Bernard R. Siskind 1955 Fund.
Exhibition Curator
Esmé Thompson | Essi Ronkko | Katherine W. Hart
Related Publications
Additional Information
Related Exhibitions
- Contemporary Abstraction: Works from the Hood Museum of Art’s Permanent Collection
- In Residence: Contemporary Artists at Dartmouth