This comprehensive monograph examines the work of Alma Thomas, an important artist in the Color Field movement and a pioneer among African-American artists working in abstraction. Alma Thomas started her painting career at the age of 68, after retiring from teaching art to junior high school students in Washington, DC. At the age of 80, Thomas s exuberantly colored abstractions were exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, where she was the first black female artist to be given a solo show. Filled with ...
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This comprehensive monograph examines the work of Alma Thomas, an important artist in the Color Field movement and a pioneer among African-American artists working in abstraction. Alma Thomas started her painting career at the age of 68, after retiring from teaching art to junior high school students in Washington, DC. At the age of 80, Thomas s exuberantly colored abstractions were exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, where she was the first black female artist to be given a solo show. Filled with vibrant illustrations, this stunning volume traces Thomas s development as an artist: her transition from figuration to abstraction, her fascination with the natural world and space exploration, and the mesmerizing mosaic-like paintings she completed before her death. New writings focus on different themes in Thomas s work, and the book includes specially commissioned responses by leading artists Leslie Hewitt, Jennie C. Jones, Leslie Wayne, and Saya Woolfalk. Together these bring Thomas s work to a new generation of readers. 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."
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New (remains sealed in publisher's wrap; soft pumping to corners & spine ends) Red color-illustrated cloth boards with white lettering. 255 pp. Color Illustrations. This comprehensive monograph examines the work of Alma Thomas, an important artist in the Color Field movement and a pioneer among African-American artists working in abstraction. Alma Thomas started her painting career at the age of 68, after retiring from teaching art to junior high school students in Washington, DC. At the age of 80, Thomas's exuberantly colored abstractions were exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, where she was the first black female artist to be given a solo show. Filled with vibrant illustrations, this stunning volume traces Thomas's development as an artist: her transition from figuration to abstraction, her fascination with the natural world and space exploration, and the mesmerizing mosaic-like paintings she completed before her death. New writings focus on different themes in Thomas's work, and the book includes specially commissioned responses by leading artists Leslie Hewitt, Jennie C. Jones, Leslie Wayne, and Saya Woolfalk. Together these bring Thomas's work to a new generation of readers. 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. --Amazon.
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(THOMAS, ALMA). Golden, Thelma, Ian Berry, Bridget R. Cooks, Thelma Golden, Nikki A. Greene, Lauren Haynes, Leslie Hewitt, Jennie C. Jones, Leslie Wayne & Saya Woolfalk. ALMA THOMAS. New York & Saratoga Springs, NY: The Studio Museum in Harlem, The Francis Young Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College & Prestel Publishing, 2016. First Edition. 4to. Cloth with Pastedown. Artist Monograph. Fine/No Jacket-As Issued. 256pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. With an exhibition checklist. This is the comprehensive hardbound catalogue published in conjunction with posthumous 2016 retrospective of the work of African-American abstract artist Alma Thomas that traveled from the Studio Museum in Harlem to The Francis Young Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College. "Filled with vibrant illustrations, this stunning volume 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." A brand new, most handsome example of this quickly unavailable document-the most comprehensive monograph on the artist to date-still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. 3-7913-5571-6 Inventory Number: 026607.
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