Alma Thomas's Watercolors
Object Details
- Date
- Mid-20th century
- Medium
- metal, watercolor
- Dimensions
- 2 3/16 × 8 5/8 × 11/16 in. (5.5 × 21.9 × 1.7 cm)
- Cite As
- Gift of David Driskell
- Caption
- This ordinary set of Sargent Art® brand watercolor paints has an embossed metal lid that opens to reveal eight pans of color. Paint splatters on the inside of the tin evidence that it was used by its owner, painter Alma Woodsey Thomas. Color was central to Thomas’s work. She distinguished herself from the Washington Color School in the 1960s and developed the colorful expressionist style for which she is best known. In her words: “Through color, I have sought to concentrate on beauty and happiness, rather than on man’s inhumanity to man.”
- Accession Number
- 1990.0063.0001
- Type
- watercolor paint set
- See more items in
- Anacostia Community Museum Collection
- Data Source
- Anacostia Community Museum
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
- Record ID
- acm_1990.0063.0001
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