Research Catalog

Title

Alma Thomas / editors, Ian Berry and Lauren Haynes.

Author

Thomas, Alma

Publication

New York, New York : The Studio Museum in Harlem ; Saratoga Springs, New York : The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College ; Munich : DelMonico Books/Prestel, 2016.

Supplementary Content

• Contributor biographical information
• Publisher description

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Details

Additional Authors

• Berry, Ian, 1971-
• Haynes, Lauren
• Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, host institution, publisher.
• Studio Museum in Harlem, host institution, publisher.

Description

255 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits (chiefly color); 31 cm

Summary

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 Hewitt, Jennie C. Jones, Leslie Wayne, and Saya Woolfalk. As the work of many African-American abstractionists is only recently coming into the spotlight, this important book on Alma Thomas profiles a truly pioneering figure.

Uniform Title

Paintings. Selections

Alternative Title

Paintings.

Subjects

• Art, Abstract
• Painters
• African American painting
• Watercolor painting, American
• African American women artists
• Painters > Washington (D.C.) > Exhibitions
• 1900-1999
• Thomas, Alma > Exhibitions
• Exhibition catalogs
• Interviews
• African American painting > 20th century > Exhibitions
• Art, Abstract > United States > 20th century > Exhibitions
• Thomas, Alma > Criticism and interpretation
• United States
• Watercolor painting, American > 20th century > Exhibitions
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Thomas, Alma > Interviews
• Washington (D.C.)
• African American women artists > 20th century > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

• Exhibition catalogs.
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Interviews.

Note

• 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, 14th July - 30th October 2016.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes 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.

Call Number

Sc+ G 17-91

ISBN

• 9783791355719 (hbk.)
• 3791355716 (hbk.)

OCLC

964700667

Author

Thomas, Alma, artist.

Title

Alma Thomas / editors, Ian Berry and Lauren Haynes.

Publisher

New York, New York : The Studio Museum in Harlem ; Saratoga Springs, New York : The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College ; Munich : DelMonico Books/Prestel, 2016.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-210).

Connect to:

Contributor biographical information

Publisher description

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Added Author

Berry, Ian, 1971- editor.

Haynes, Lauren, editor.

Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, host institution, publisher.

Studio Museum in Harlem, host institution, publisher.

Research Call Number

Sc+ G 17-91

JQG 17-39