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Alma Thomas

Alma Thomas

Book 2016

This exhibition features works from every period in Thomas's career, including rarely exhibited watercolors and early abstractions, as well as her signature canvases drawn from a variety of private and public collections. This catalogue traces Thomas's development as an artist and includes new writings by Bridget R. Cooks, Thelma Golden, Nikki A. Greene and Lauren Haynes, as well as specially commissioned responses by leading artists Leslie Hewit...

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ISBN:
9783791355719
Description:
255 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), portraits (chiefly colour) ; 31 cm
Notes:
Published to accompany the exhibition held at The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York, 6th February - 5th June 2016 and The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, 13th July - 30th October 2016
Contains bibliographical references (pages 209-210)
Contents:
Move to Abstraction
Artist Page / Leslie Wayne
Alma Thomas / Ian Berry and Lauren Haynes
Earth
Artist Page / Leslie Hewitt
Wind, Sunshine and Flowers": The Visual Cadences of Alma Thomas's Washington, DC / Nikki A. Greene
Space
Artist Page / Saya Woolfalk
Painting Space / Lauren Haynes
Mosaic
Artist Page / Jennie C. Jones
The Nature of Color / Bridget R. Cooks
Selected Exhibition History
Selected Bibliography
Archive
Exhibition Checklist
Control Number:
1997696
Other Authors:
Berry, Ian, 1971- editor
Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, host institution, publisher
Haynes, Lauren, editor
Studio Museum in Harlem, host institution, publisher
Thomas, Alma. Works. Selections
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