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Blue Ground Stripe

Alma Thomas

1891-1978

Blue Ground Stripe

Acrylic and watercolor on paper

22 1/2 in x 29 7/8 in

1971

As Published In:

Central to Their Lives: Southern Women Artists in the Johnson Collection, 2018

As Exhibited In:

Yellow, TJC Gallery, Spartanburg, SC, August 5–October 17, 2026

Our Own Work, Our Own Way, TJC Gallery, Spartanburg, SC, February 12–April 17, 2020, Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC, January 21–May 21, 2023, The Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, GA, April 27–September 8, 2024, Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, PA, February 9–May 18, 2025

Roots/Routes: Mobility and Displacement in Art of the American South, Wofford College, Spartanburg, SC, August 30–December 8, 2023

Alma W. Thomas: Everything is Beautiful, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, July 9, 2021–September 25, 2022, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, October 30, 2021–January 23, 2022, Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN, February 25–June 6, 2022, The Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, GA, July 11–September 25, 2022

Pursuits on Paper, TJC Gallery, Spartanburg, SC, July 29–October 3, 2020

Elevation from Within: The Study of Art at Historically Black Colleges and Universities, TJC Gallery, Spartanburg, SC, February 20–May 10, 2019

Every Child is an Artist, TJC Gallery, Spartanburg, SC, June 1–August 16, 2018

To Teach is to Learn: Lessons in African American Art of the South, TJC Gallery, Spartanburg, SC, August 31, 2017–January 12, 2018

Beauty and Pattern in Common Things, TJC Gallery, Spartanburg, SC, March 19–May 28, 2015

Beyond the Harlem Renaissance, TJC Gallery, Spartanburg, SC, February 20–April 2, 2014

Abstracting the South, TJC Gallery, Spartanburg, SC, October 18–November 26, 2012

Walkers with the Dawn: A Century of African-American Art in the South, TJC Gallery, Spartanburg, SC, May 13–July 21, 2011

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