Alma Thomas's Painting Tools
Object Details
- Date
- mid 20th Century
- Medium
- metal, bamboo, paint, wood
- Dimensions
- Reed pen: 8 1/16 × 13/16 × 3/8 in. (20.5 × 2 × 1 cm)
- Palette knife lanceolate : 9 1/8 × 13/16 × 3/8 in. (23.1 × 2.1 × 1 cm)
- Palette knife oblong : 8 13/16 × 7/8 × 9/16 in. (22.4 × 2.2 × 1.5 cm)
- Palette knife multi angle: 8 1/2 × 1 1/16 × 3/8 in. (21.6 × 2.7 × 1 cm)
- Thin brush: 11 5/8 × 1/2 × 3/16 in. (29.5 × 1.3 × 0.5 cm)
- Thick brush: 12 1/16 × 1 1/4 × 1/2 in. (30.7 × 3.1 × 1.2 cm)
- Long brush: 13 9/16 × 7/8 × 1/2 in. (34.4 × 2.3 × 1.3 cm)
- Caption
- This collection of paintbrushes and painting tools used by Alma Thomas includes a reed pen, palette and painting knives for mixing and applying paint, and natural bristle brushes. The paint splotches caked on the handles evidences their heavy use. Thomas sought inspiration from the city of Washington in her work, and was known to frequent the National Arboretum and the Jefferson and Lincoln Memorials. These painting tools helped Thomas transform her impressions of the world around her into the colorful, fragmented abstract works of art for which she is best known.
- Accession Number
- 2014.0032.0001
- Type
- artist kit
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- Anacostia Community Museum Collection
- Data Source
- Anacostia Community Museum
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
- Record ID
- acm_2014.0032.0001
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