1969, Alma Woodsey Thomas, Iris, Tulips, Jonquils, and Crocuses -- National Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington)
From the museum label: In 1972, Thomas was the first African American woman featured in a solo exhibition at New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art. She developed her signature abstract painting style in her late seventies, after spending more than three decades teaching art in a Washington, D.C., junior high school. Characterized by brightly colored, lozenge-shaped brushstrokes arranged in long bands or puzzle-like patterns, the style broke significantly with Thomas’s earlier realistic paintings.
Link to a high-resolution close-up photo of details from this painting.
1969, Alma Woodsey Thomas, Iris, Tulips, Jonquils, and Crocuses -- National Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington)
From the museum label: In 1972, Thomas was the first African American woman featured in a solo exhibition at New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art. She developed her signature abstract painting style in her late seventies, after spending more than three decades teaching art in a Washington, D.C., junior high school. Characterized by brightly colored, lozenge-shaped brushstrokes arranged in long bands or puzzle-like patterns, the style broke significantly with Thomas’s earlier realistic paintings.
Link to a high-resolution close-up photo of details from this painting.