Earth Sermon - Beauty, Love And Peace
Date
1971
Artist
Alma Thomas, American, b. Columbus, Georgia, 1891–1978
Provenance
Mr. and Mrs. David K. Anderson, New York, to 28 October 1980
The Martha Jackson Memorial Collection: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. David K. Anderson, 1980
Exhibition History
FORT WAYNE MUSEUM OF ART, Indiana. "Alma W. Thomas: A Retrospective of the Paintings," 11 September-8 November 1998, cat. 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.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institiution, Washington, DC. "Put It This Way: (Re)Visions of the Hirshhorn Collection," 24 June 2022-16 July 2023, no cat.
Published References
HILEMAN, KRISTEN and HIRSH, JENNIE. Fields + Formations: A Survey of Mid-Atlantic Abstraction (Wilmington: The Delaware Contemporary, 2021), color ill. p. 10.
AQUIN, STEPHANE, et al. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: The Collection (New York: DelMonico Books, 2022), pl. 179, p. 197.
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School
African-American Abstraction/Washington Color School
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
Data Source
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Accession Number
80.107
Type
Painting
Medium
Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions
72 × 52 1/8 in. (182.9 × 132.4 cm)
