Thompson in Ibiza, 1962 (c) the respective photographer/ The Whitney Museum of American Art Ornette , 1960-61, 81 x 77 in. Black Monster , 1959, 57 x 66 in. I got into a groove...where the subject matter was monsters. The whole thing was involved in a sort of poetry and the relationship was like man and woman to nature and beasts. - Bob Thompson Le Poignarder (The Star) , 1959, 50 x 60 in. Thompson in his studio on Rivington Street, NY, ca. 1964 Photo (c) Charles Rotmil 1961(?) in Paris...saw him in Left Bank hotel studio- we talked and turned on, I dug his new candy-bright colored style making Poussin-esque space, flat colors surface amorphism delineating 3-D figures...I thought him the most original visionary painter of his days, a first natural American psychedelic colorist. - Allen Ginsberg After El Greco's Annunciation , 1960, 12 1/4 x 9 1/4 in. Gouache on photo reproduction. Saint George and the Dragon , 1961-62, 89 1/2 x...