Autumn Drama

c. 1969

Alma Thomas

Painter, American, 1891 - 1978

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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

Thurlow Evans Tibbs, Jr. [1952-1997], Washington; gift 1996 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.

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Wikidata ID

Q46638649


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