Object Details
- Artist
- Alma Thomas, born Columbus, GA 1891-died Washington, DC 1978
- Gallery Label
- Do you see that painting? Look at it move. That's energy and I'm the one who put it there. . . . I transform energy with these old limbs of mine.
- --Alma Thomas
- This is the largest painting of Alma Thomas's career, created for what would be the last solo exhibition of her lifetime. Thomas painted it on three separate canvases, a format that enabled the artist to achieve ambitious scale despite her declining health and the modest size of her kitchen studio.
- As the painting's title suggests, Thomas often listened to music as she worked. Here, bright red forms shimmy across the canvas as if animated by the rhythm of rock and roll.
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of the artist
- 1976
- Object number
- 1980.36.2A-C
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Painting
- Medium
- acrylic on canvas
- Dimensions
- 73 3/4 × 158 1/2 × 2 1/2 in. (187.3 × 402.6 × 6.4 cm)
- See more items in
- Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture
- On View
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, 3rd Floor, North Wing
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Topic
- Abstract
- Record ID
- saam_1980.36.2A-C
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk70f0df2e8-f5de-4276-a969-10b0c670686b
