Earth Sermon—Beauty, Love and Peace by Alma Thomas, 1971
Earth Sermon—Beauty, Love and Peace by Alma Thomas, 1971
A pioneering female African American painter in a white male-dominated field
The first student to earn a fine arts degree from Howard University artist Alma Thomas (1891–1978) spent years as a teacher, dedicating herself completely to painting only after she retired. Exhibiting at New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art in 1972, Thomas remarked, “When I was a little girl . . . there were things we could do and things we couldn’t. One of the things we couldn’t do was go into museums, let alone think of hanging our work there. My, times have changed.”
Earth Sermon - Beauty, Love And Peace
- Artist
- Alma Thomas, American, b. Columbus, Georgia, 1891–1978
- Exhibition History
- FORT WAYNE MUSEUM OF ART, Indiana. "Alma W. Thomas: A Retrospective of the Paintings," 11 September-8 November 1998. TOUR: TAMPA MUSEUM OF ART, 22 January-21 March 1999; NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM, Trenton, 16 April-13 June; ANACOSTIA MUSEUM, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 16 July-12 September; COLUMBUS MUSEUM, Ohio, 17 October-9 January 2000.
- Credit Line
- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, The Martha Jackson Memorial Collection: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. David K. Anderson, 1980
- 1971
- Accession Number
- 80.107
- Type
- Painting
- Medium
- Acrylic on canvas
- Dimensions
- 76\ × 52 1/8 in. (182.9 × 132.4 cm )
- School
- African-American Abstraction/Washington Color School
- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
- Record ID
- hmsg_80.107
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/py2eedd95d8-2ec8-4ce4-a627-c6b9909c6f42
