Selected Museum Collections

Selected Museum Collections

African-American Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH
The Anacostia Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
The Art Gallery, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME
The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Carl Van Vechten Gallery of Fine Arts, Fisk University, Nashville, TN
Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
Dimock Gallery, George Washington University, Washington, DC
Fort Wayne Museum of Fine Arts, Fort Wayne, IN
H.C. Taylor Art Gallery, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, Greensboro, NC
Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Howard University Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
LaSalle University Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
The Museum of African American Art, Tampa, FL
National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York, NY
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL
Tougaloo Art Collections, Tougaloo College, Tougaloo, MS
University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IO
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
The Watkins Collection, American University, Washington, DC
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Solo Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions

1959		Bennett College, Greensboro, NC
1960		Watercolors by Alma Thomas, Dupont Theatre Art Gallery, Washington, DC; 1961, 62
1966		Alma Thomas: A Retrospective Exhibition (1959-1966), Howard University Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; 1975
1967		Margaret Dickey Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
1968		Alma Thomas: Recent Paintings, Franz Bader Gallery, Washington, DC; 1970, 74
1971		Recent Paintings by Alma W. Thomas: Earth and Space Series, 1961-1971, Carl Van Vechten Gallery of Fine Arts, Fisk University, Nashville, TN
1972		Alma W. Thomas, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Alma W. Thomas: Retrospective Exhibition, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
1973		Alma W. Thomas: Paintings, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY
1976		Alma W. Thomas: Recent Paintings, H.C. Taylor Art Gallery, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, Greensboro, NC Alma W. Thomas: Recent Paintings, 1975-1976, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY
1981		A Life in Art: Alma Thomas, 1891-1978, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
1998		Alma W. Thomas: A Retrospective of the Paintings, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN; Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL; New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ; Anacostia Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; The Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA
2001		Alma Thomas: Phantasmagoria, Major Paintings from the 1970s, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY

Group Exhibitions

Group Exhibitions

1951		Inspiration House, Washington, DC
1952		8th Annual Exhibition of Paintings, Sculptures and Prints by Negro Artists, Trevor Arnett Library, Atlanta University, Atlanta, GA; 1954, 64, 70
1953		Dupont Theatre Art Gallery, Washington, DC
1954		Six Washington Painters, Barnett-Arden Gallery, Washington, DC; 1956, 59 Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; 1955, 60
1955		Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; 1956, 59, 77
1958		Contemporary American Paintings, College Arts Traveling Service, Washington, DC Howard University Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; 1959, 1960, 63, 66
1959		American University, Washington, DC
1960		American Federation of the Arts, Washington, DC
1961		U.S. National Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; 1962, 63 New Vistas in American Art, Howard University Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
1963		CORE, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY Margaret Dickey Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
1967		Hampton University Institute, Hampton, VA American Austrian Cultural Society, Washington, DC
1968		Encounters: An Exhibit in Celebration of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Bi-Centennial, James B. Duke Library, Johnson C. Smith University, Charlotte, NC Dimock Gallery, George Washington University, Washington, DC Anacostia Neighborhood Museum, Washington, DC; 1970, 75 The Art Club of Washington, Washington, DC; 1972
1969		Arts and Industries Building, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC Johns and Marble Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL Lee Nordness Gallery, New York, NY
1970		Dimensions of Black, La Jolla Museum of Art, La Jolla, CA UNCF, Equal Opportunity Building, New York, NY Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD Afro-American Artists: New York and Boston, The Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists, Boston, MA; School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1971		Black American Artists/71, Lobby Gallery, Illinois Bell Telephone, Chicago, IL Kalamazoo Institute of the Arts, Kalamazoo, MI Contemporary Black Artists in America, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY The Art Barn, Washington, DC Audubon Naturalist Society, Chevy Chase, MD
1972		Black Matri-Images: A Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings by Laura Wheeler Waring and Paintings and Prints by Elizabeth Catlett, Lois Jones, Alma W. Thomas, Morgan State College Gallery of Art, Baltimore, MD
1974		Woman’s Work: American Art 1974, Museum of the Philadelphia Civic Center, Philadelphia, PA Painting and Sculpture Today, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN; Contemporary Arts Center and Taft Museum, Cincinnati, OH National Convention, American Institute of Architects, Washington, DC
1975		11 in New York, Women’s Interart Center Inc., New York, NY Color and Image: Six Artists from Washington, DC, University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA Afro-American Art, Carl Van Vechten Gallery of Fine Arts, Fisk University, Nashville, TN The District Building, Washington, DC Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA Contemporary Arts Gallery, New York University, New York, NY
1976		Two Centuries of Black American Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA The Hue and Far Cry of Color: Contemporary “Mural” Size Paintings, Performing Arts Center, Fort Wayne, IN Communication in Black Culture, American Telephone and Telegraph Company, New York, NY
1977		35th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Pattern, Grid and System Art, Wilson Gallery, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC Summit Gallery, New York, NY Pattern, Grid and System Art, Ralph Wilson Gallery, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA
1979		Black Artists/South, Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL Reflections of a Southern Heritage: 20th Century Black Artists of the Southeast, Gibbes Art Gallery, Charleston, SC Women Artists in Washington Collections, University of Maryland Art Gallery and Women’s Caucus for the Arts, College Park, MD
1980		Forever Free: Art by African-American Women, 1862-1980, Alexandria, VA
1981		Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NB
1983		Celebrating Contemporary American Black Artists, Fine Arts Museum of Long Island, Hempstead, NY Six Washington Masters, Evan-Tibbs Collection, Washington, DC
1985		Since the Harlem Renaissance: 50 Years of Afro-American Art, Center Gallery of Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA Art in Washington and Its Afro-American Presence, 1940-1970, Washington Projects for the Arts, Washington, DC
1986		Unbroken Circle: Exhibition of African-American Artists of the 1930s and 1940s, Kenkeleba House, New York, NY
1989		African-American Artists, 1880-1987: Selections from the Evans-Tibbs Collection, Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, Washington, DC
1991		The Search for Freedom: African American Abstract Painting, Kenkeleba House, New York, NY The Walter O. Evans Collection of African American Art, Beach Institute-King, Tisdell Museum, Savannah, GA; The Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE; Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI; Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN; Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY; Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
1992		Free Within Ourselves: African-American Artists in the Collection of the National Museum of American Art, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT; IBM Gallery of Science and Art, New York, NY, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN, The Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA
1994		The Harmon and Harriet Kelley Collection of African American Art, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX; El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX; Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, Atlanta, GA; Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH; Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN
		The Barnett-Aden Collection, The Museum of African American Art, Tampa, FL
1996		African-American Art: 20th Century Masterworks, III, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY Bearing Witness: Contemporary Works by African American Women Artists, ExhibitsUSA, Spelman College, Atlanta, GA
1997		Revisiting American Art: Works from the Collections of Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY African-American Art: 20th Century Masterworks, IV, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY; Fisk University Galleries, Nashville, TN
1998		Tradition & Conflict: A Visual History of African-Americans in Art, 19th and Early 20th Centuries, Ledbetter Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN
1999		African-American Art: 20th Century Masterworks, VI, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY; Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI To Conserve A Legacy: American Art from Historically Black Colleges and Universities, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY; Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA; The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Clark Atlanta University Art Galleries, Atlanta, GA; Fisk University with Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, TN; Hampton University Museum, Hampton, VA
2000		African-American Art: 20th Century Masterworks, VII, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY; The Appleton Museum of Art, Florida State University, Ocala, FL Michael Rosenfeld Gallery: The First Decade, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
2001		African-American Art: 20th Century Masterworks, VIII, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY; Texas Southern University Museum, Houston, TX Abstraction on Paper: 1950-1965, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
2002		In the Spirit of Martin: The Living Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Charles H. Wright Museum of African American Art, Detroit, MI; Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE; Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, NY; Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN; Montgomery Museum of Fine Art, Montgomery, AL Free Expressions: Community Voices and Contemporary African American Art from the CollectionNewark Museum, Newark, NJ African-American Art: 20th Century Masterworks, IX, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY; Tubman African American Museum, Macon, GA
2003		Five African American Artists, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC African-American Art: 20th Century Mastersworks, X, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, LLC, New York, NY African American Masters: Highlights of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, New York Historical Society, New York, NY; Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN; The Cummer Museum of Art, Jacksonville, FL; Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH; Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH; The Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE; Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA; Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT
2004		Mood Indigo: The Legacy of Duke Ellington - A Look at Jazz and Improvisation in American Art, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, LLC, New York, NY Presence, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY
2005		Stroke! Beauford Delaney, Norman Lewis & Alma Thomas, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, LLC, New York, NY
2006		Pre – Post, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York, NY Lines of Discovery: 225 Years of American Drawings, The Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA; Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK; Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI; Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AK
2007		Decoding Myth: African American Abstraction, 1945-1975, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, LLC, New York, NY
2008		African American Art: 200 Years, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY Circa 1958: Breaking Ground in American Art, Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC Beyond the Canon: Small-Scale American Abstraction, 1945-1965, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY
2009		Abstract Expressionism: Further Evidence (Part One: Painting), Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, LLC, New York, NY
2010		Color Balance: Paintings by Felrath Hines and Alma Thomas, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC