David Bates ( b. 1952).  &lt;i&gt;Night Fishing, 1987&lt;/i&gt;.  Oil on canvas. &amp;nbsp;Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Laila and Thurston Twigg Smith. (Courtesy of the artist, David Bates, and Arthur Roger Gallery.) Bates' paintings and the others appearing in this post are part of the current Whitney show curated by Scott Rothkopf.&amp;nbsp;(Robert Gerhardt and Denis Y. Sus/Arthur Roger Gallery)