Autumn Drama
c. 1969
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acrylic on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 60.96 × 76.2 cm (24 × 30 in.) framed: 86.68 × 101.92 × 9.84 cm (34 1/8 × 40 1/8 × 3 7/8 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CMC
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (The Evans-Tibbs Collection, Gift of Thurlow Evans Tibbs, Jr.)
Accession Number
2015.19.211
Art Historical Context
Alma Thomas's *Autumn Drama* (c. 1969), an acrylic painting on canvas measuring 24 × 30 inches, captures the artist's exuberant late-career style. At around 78 years old,— a trailblazing African American artist from Washington, D.C.— fully embraced abstraction, creating luminous mosaics of color that evoke nature's rhythms. This work, with its title suggesting the theatrical sweep of fall foliage, exemplifies her signature technique of short, irregular strokes forming vibrant, tessellated patterns, reminiscent of light filtering through leaves. Painted in acrylic, a modern medium favored for ...