Winter Shadows

c. 1960

Alma Thomas

Associated Names
Alma Thomas

Artist, American, 1891 - 1978

This painting displays overlapping shapes and lines in an abstract composition. Across the painting are thick lines of dark green-blue paint that blend together to create thick dark patches. Around these abstract forms are lighter patches of yellow, aquamarine, lavender, peach, and bright green. The colors overlap and blend together. Across all these shapes are thin black vertical lines and small spots and splatters of paint. The background is light yellow paper.

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Scarlet-red dashes create loose vertical lines against a bright white background that fill this vertical abstract painting. Most of the dashes are vertical but some slant at an angle. The artist signed and dated the work with white paint in the lower right corner, “AWT 73.”

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

the artist, Washington, D.C.; Ida and Sidney Jervis, Falls Church, Virginia; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1985; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1998

  • Alma Thomas: A Retrospective of the Paintings, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Indiana; Tampa Museum of Art, Florida; Anacostia Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 1998-1999, p. 82, pl. 11, incorrectly titled "Spring Fantasy"

Inscriptions

lower right in black ink: A. W. Thomas

Markings

embossed lower right: Veritable Papier d'Arches

Watermarks

Arches / France

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