Alternate Title Options:
- Blonde Lady with Floating Mouth — Exhibited Thrift Store Painting, 1991
- Vintage Found Portrait of a Blonde Woman — Signed Lynn Thompson
- Blonde Lady Portrait — From the Todd Oldham Studio Collection of Found Paintings
- Floating Mouth Blonde — Vintage Stretched Canvas Portrait, 16 x 20 in.
- Lynn Thompson Blonde Lady Portrait — Metro Pictures / Thrift Store Paintings Provenance
Description:
A beautiful, strange, and wonderfully special vintage found portrait painting titled “Blonde Lady with Floating Mouth.” Painted on a 16 x 20 inch canvas board, this unforgettable blonde woman has the kind of presence that makes found paintings so compelling — elegant, mysterious, slightly surreal, and full of unspoken story.
What makes this piece truly extraordinary is its history. This painting was included in the September 1991 exhibition “Thrift Store Paintings” at Metro Pictures in SoHo, New York, an exhibition connected to the book of the same name authored by Jim Shaw. That provenance gives the work a remarkable place within the celebrated world of found art, thrift-store painting, outsider aesthetics, and the appreciation of anonymous or semi-anonymous vernacular creativity. Image of the exhibit; you can find her bottom row second painting from the column.
Part of the Todd Oldham Studio Collection of found paintings, this piece carries not only visual charm but a rich cultural backstory. It is beautiful, unusual, and deeply special — the kind of painting that feels like it has lived many lives before arriving here. What a story she has to tell.
Signed Lynn Thompson at lower left.
Alternate Title Options:
- Blonde Lady with Floating Mouth — Exhibited Thrift Store Painting, 1991
- Vintage Found Portrait of a Blonde Woman — Signed Lynn Thompson
- Blonde Lady Portrait — From the Todd Oldham Studio Collection of Found Paintings
- Floating Mouth Blonde — Vintage Stretched Canvas Portrait, 16 x 20 in.
- Lynn Thompson Blonde Lady Portrait — Metro Pictures / Thrift Store Paintings Provenance
Description:
A beautiful, strange, and wonderfully special vintage found portrait painting titled “Blonde Lady with Floating Mouth.” Painted on a 16 x 20 inch canvas board, this unforgettable blonde woman has the kind of presence that makes found paintings so compelling — elegant, mysterious, slightly surreal, and full of unspoken story.
What makes this piece truly extraordinary is its history. This painting was included in the September 1991 exhibition “Thrift Store Paintings” at Metro Pictures in SoHo, New York, an exhibition connected to the book of the same name authored by Jim Shaw. That provenance gives the work a remarkable place within the celebrated world of found art, thrift-store painting, outsider aesthetics, and the appreciation of anonymous or semi-anonymous vernacular creativity. Image of the exhibit; you can find her bottom row second painting from the column.
Part of the Todd Oldham Studio Collection of found paintings, this piece carries not only visual charm but a rich cultural backstory. It is beautiful, unusual, and deeply special — the kind of painting that feels like it has lived many lives before arriving here. What a story she has to tell.
Signed Lynn Thompson at lower left.