Alma Thomas's Watercolors
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content: Mid-20th century
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content: 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.”
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content: Este ordinario juego de acuarelas de la marca Sargent Art® se convierte en extraordinario al haber pertenecido a la pintora Alma Thomas. El color es un elemento central en la obra de Thomas, que estudió teoría del color y pintura en acuarela a lo largo de toda su carrera. Diferenciándose de la Washington Color School de la década de 1960, Thomas desarrolló el colorido estilo expresionista por el que es reconocida. Este juego de acuarelas representa la primacía del color en su obra. Las salpicaduras de pintura en el interior de la lata y alrededor de los ocho colores dan muestra de su uso y recuerdan la filosofía de Thomas: "A través del color, he tratado de concentrarme en la belleza y la felicidad, en lugar de hacerlo en la inhumanidad del ser humano hacia sus semejantes".
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content: Anacostia Community Museum Collection
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content: Anacostia Community Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Gift of David Driskell
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content: Anacostia Community Museum
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content: 1990.0063.0001
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content: watercolor paint set
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
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content: metal, watercolor
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content: 2 3/16 × 8 5/8 × 11/16 in. (5.5 × 21.9 × 1.7 cm)