- Slaughter's work, with its seemingly effortless whimsy rendered with
a strong sense of line, color, and rhythm, has also been compared to
Matisse Of Tom Slaughter, 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." Slaughter's work, with its seemingly
effortless whimsy rendered with a strong sense of line, color, and
rhythm, has also been compared to Matisse. His 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 announce
the publication of Tom Slaughter, 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.
