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Field Trip — Smart Museum Tour of Alma Thomas

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Join fellow CHPV Members for an Free Private Group Tour of:

Composing Color: Paintings by Alma Thomas from the Smithsonian American Art Museum

Smart Museum of Art
University of Chicago
Tuesday, April 28
10–11am
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Lunch at Roux as a group at your own expense

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Enjoy a 1-hour guided tour of the exhibition led by Smart Museum expert guides. And then join CHPV's DEIA Team and other members for lunch at Roux (an easy walk from the Smart) at your own expense.

Our thanks to Dorothy Strang and others from CHPV's DEIA Team for generously serving as our group leaders and ambassadors for this event.

9:50 — Arrive at Smart Museum
10:00–11:00 — Private Exhibition Tour
11:00 — Walk to Roux for lunch with friends at own expense

Alma Thomas (1891–1978) is a singular figure of twentieth-century American art. She developed her form of abstraction – characterized by the dazzling interplay of pattern and hue – late in life, after retiring from a long career as a schoolteacher. Her vibrant and rhythmic art transcended established genres, incorporating elements of gestural abstraction and color field painting and creating a style distinctly her own.

Composing Color: Paintings by Alma Thomas draws on the extensive holdings of the artist’s paintings at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) and offers an intimate view of Thomas’s evolving practice during her most prolific period, from 1959 to 1978. At a deeply politicized moment in American life, Thomas’s abiding sources of inspiration became the cosmos, nature, and music. As she stated, “Through color I have sought to concentrate on beauty and happiness, rather than on man’s inhumanity to man.” The exhibition invites visitors to see the world through the eyes of Alma Thomas.

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