Details ALMA THOMAS (1891-1978)A Fantastic Sunsetsigned, titled and dated a Fantastic Sunset Alma W. Thomas 70 (on the reverse)acrylic on canvas48 x 48 in. (121.9 x 121.9 cm.)Painted in 1970. Provenance Private collection, PhiladelphiaPrivate collection, St. LouisAnon. sale; Christies, New York, 13 November 2019, lot 26Private collection, New YorkAcquired from the above by the present owner Literature Alma W. Thomas, exh. cat., New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1972, p. 1. M. A. Foresta, A Life in Art: Alma Thomas, 1891-1978, Washington, D.C., 1981, p. 45 (titled Astronauts See a Fantastic Sunset).D. C. Driskell, The Other Side of Color, San Francisco, 2001, p. 42, pl. 21 (illustrated).Everything is Beautiful, exh. cat., Columbus Museum, 2021, pp. 24, 125, fig. 8 (installation view illustrated). Exhibited Washington, D.C., The Art Barn, First Invitational Exhibit, May 1971.Baltimore, Morgan State College Gallery of Art, Black Matri-Images: A Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings by Laura Wheeler Waring and Paintings and Prints by Elizabeth Catlett, Lois Jones, Alma W. Thomas, December 1972-January 1973, n.p., no. 70.Washington, D.C., Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, CONVERSATIONS: African and African American Artworks in Dialogue from the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art and the Camille O. and William H. Cosby Collections, November 2014-January 2016, p. 208, pl. 120 (illustrated). Conditions of sale