Author: Yanari, Sachi et al. Title: Alma W. Thomas: A Retrospective of the Paintings
Description: Rohnert Park, California, Pomegranate, 1998. Softbound. Glossy blue wraps with color illus. and French flaps. 144 pp. 54 color plates, 27 color in-text figures. Contains 4 essays, lovely plates, an artist's chronology, collections, and bibliography. Essays are: "From academic representation to poetic abstraction: the art of Alma Woodsey Thomas" (Tritobia Hayes Benjamin); "Alma W. Thomas: order and emotion" (Jacob Kainen); "Putting Alma Thomas in place: modernist painting, color theory, and civil rights" (Ann Gibson); and "Apolitical art in a political world: Alma Thomas in the late 1960s and early 1970s" (Jonathan P. Binstock). Catalogue from the exhibition held between September 1998 and January 2000 at the Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Tampa Museum of Art, Anacostia Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, and The Columbus Museum (Columbus, Georgia). VG-, clean, bright and tight. Unbroken spine but with a hint of shelf wear to covers. Previous owner stamops ibnside on title-page and rear flap. Appears unread.
Keywords: American Artists; Alma Thomas; African-American Women; African-American Painters ; Thomas, Alma ; African-American ; Art of Women
Price: US$ 55.00 Seller: Kevin Mullen, Bookseller
- Book number: 130168
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