{"product_id":"tom-slaughter-9798987228173","title":"Tom Slaughter","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTom Slaughter's work, with its seemingly effortless whimsy rendered with a strong sense of line, color, and rhythm, conveys his love of life and celebrates his enduring optimism, personal and artistic honesty, and charming brashness.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOf \u003cb\u003eTom Slaughter\u003c\/b\u003e, Henry Geldzahler, the first curator of twentieth-century art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, commented: \"The quality of freshness, the familiar world re-seen, from the water towers of New York City to the rural pleasures of boating, is the most immediately arresting aspect of Tom Slaughter's art... Bold bright colors swiftly laid down echo with resonances: Léger and Stuart Davis, Raoul Dufy and Roy Lichtenstein.\" His work, with its seemingly effortless whimsy rendered with a strong sense of line, color, and rhythm, has also been compared to Matisse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSlaughter's Pop-inflected drawings, prints, paintings, and illustrations convey his love of life as he relentlessly explored the complexities of the urban scene or the simple pleasures of boating. The Artist Book Foundation is pleased to publish \u003ci\u003eTom Slaughter\u003c\/i\u003e, an extensive monograph of the artist's enormous body of work that celebrates his enduring optimism, personal and artistic honesty, and charming brashness in a landscape of pure joy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGlenn Lowry\u003c\/b\u003e, director of the Museum of Modern Art, reveals Slaughter as a treasured friend whose artistry was fueled by endless curiosity about life's simple pleasures, a man who made his innumerable friends and acquaintances part of his personal community. Slaughter's lifelong friend, actor and writer \u003cb\u003eDavid Marshall Grant\u003c\/b\u003e, remembers the artist's delight when, in a high school art class, he was introduced to the mysteries of negative space and the enigmatic power it brings to an artwork. Artist, art critic, and independent curator \u003cb\u003eAndy Fabo\u003c\/b\u003e describes his friend's vibrant art as all about pleasure. Even in the most turbulent of times, he took a celebratory approach to his art, offering his viewers a sensual and visual delight. For \u003cb\u003eJon Robin Baitz\u003c\/b\u003e, playwright and screenwriter, the \"sweetness\" of Slaughter's images was insistent, a compulsive scrutinizing of the visual world of small domesticities. \u003cb\u003eMarthe Jocelyn\u003c\/b\u003e, the artist's former wife and a children's book author and illustrator, reflects on the couple's acclaimed collaboration on a series of books for the very youngest readers. \u003cb\u003eJim Kempner\u003c\/b\u003e, gallery owner, recalls Slaughter as a man of charm and enormous artistic talent who always managed to retain a childlike innocence. Artist \u003cb\u003eGeorge Negroponte\u003c\/b\u003e remembers Slaughter as focusing on the life around him, especially his daughters, in a unique mixture of everyday images, abstracted yet conveying popular culture. And in an interview both informative and poignant, Slaughter's friends, artists \u003cb\u003eStephen Hannock\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cjean-paul russell\u003e, \u003cb\u003eRobert Harms\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eRay Charles White\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003eScott Kilgour\u003c\/b\u003e pay tribute to a dear friend whose prolific career, though cut short, was remarkable for a visual language that makes his art accessible to everyone.\u003c\/jean-paul\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tom Slaughter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49076454719739,"sku":"9798987228173","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_cb772a59-1fb0-441f-a030-8e0dad480dec.jpg?v=1784213785","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/tom-slaughter-9798987228173","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}