Artifact

Alma Thomas's Paintbrush

1 cm 30.2 cm 1 cm

Fuente · Anacostia Community Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Gift of David Driskell

This is an ordinary artist’s paintbrush, made extraordinary by having belonged to Alma Woodsey Thomas (1891-1978). Thomas’s vibrant brushwork enlivened her abstract watercolors and mosaic-patterned paintings. In a 1970 interview, the artist described her brush strokes as “free and irregular, some close together, others far apart, thus creating interesting patterns of canvas peeping around the stro

  • Crédito: Anacostia Community Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Gift of David Driskell
  • Derechos: CC0