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NewYork, September 13 – November 3, 2001.
This important Civil Rights painting is one of Alma Thomas’s few representative works from the
early 1960s. Thomas incorporates her 1960s bright palette of primary colors with a flattened,
abstracted view of the crowds and their placards. She participated in the March onWashington on
August 28, 1963, which clearly made a lasting impression, as she returned to figuration to record
the historical event in her work. The painting did not travel to her 1998 Fort Wayne Museum of
Art retrospective, but it was included and illustrated in the Pomegranate catalogue. Gibson p. 43.
[30,000/50,000]