Starry Night and the Astronauts

1. The artist; sold to Martha Jackson Gallery [later Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, NY], New York, Oct. 9, 1973 [invoice; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, Mar. 14, 1994.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Alma W. Thomas Retrospective, Apr. 25–May 28, 1972, cat. 19.
• Washington D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, Alma W. Thomas Retrospective Exhibition, Sept. 8–Oct. 15, 1972, cat. 35.
• New York, Martha Jackson Gallery, Alma Thomas, Oct. 10–Nov. 3, 1973, not in cat.
• New York, Women’s International Art Center, Ten Black Women, May 1–23, 1975, no cat.
• Iowa City, University of Iowa, Color and Image: Six Artists from Washington, Sept. 5–Nov. 18, 1975, cat. 80.
• Buffalo, Anderson Gallery, Selected Works from the Gallery Collection, Oct. 5–Nov. 16, 1991, cat. 23, exhibition checklist.
• Saratoga, Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Alma Thomas, Feb. 6–June 5, no cat. no.; New York, Studio Museum in Harlem, July 14–Oct. 30, 2016.
• Norfolk, VA, Chrysler Museum of Art, Alma W. Thomas: Everything is Beautiful, July 9, 2021-Oct. 3, 2021, cat. 143; Washington D.C., The Phillips Collection, Oct. 30, 2021-Jan. 23, 2022; Nashville, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Feb. 25, 2022-June 5, 2022; Columbus, GA, Columbus Museum July 1, 2022- Sept. 25, 2022.

• Alma Thomas, alma w. thomas, exh. cat. (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1972), n.p., cat. 19.
• Gene Baro, David C. Driskell, and Jacob Kainen, Alma W. Thomas, exh. cat. (Washington D.C.: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1972), n.p., cat. 35.
• Jan Keene Muhlert, Color and Image: Six Artists from Washington, exh. cat. (Iowa City: University of Iowa, 1975), n.p., cat. 80.
• Anderson Gallery, Selected Works from the Gallery Collection, exh. checklist (Buffalo: Anderson Gallery), n.p., cat. 23.
• Andrea D. Barnwell, “Portfolio,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 24, 2 (1999), 213, no. 24.
• Andrea D. Barnwell and Kirsten P. Buick, “A Portfolio of Works by African American Artists Continuing the Dialogue: A Work in Progress,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 24, 2 (1999), 187.
• Ian Berry and Lauren Haynes, Alma Thomas, exh. cat. (Studio Museum in Harlem/Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College/DelMonico Books, 2015), 107, 142, 143 (color ill.), 150, 151 (color ill.), 234 (ill.), 246, 250.
• Richard Kalina, "Through Color," Art in America, 104, 5 (May 2016), 124 (color ill.), 125.
• Ken Johnson, "'Alma Thomas,' and Incandescent Painter" The New York Times (online), Aug. 4, 2016, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/05/arts/design/alma-thomas-an-incandescent-pioneer.html
• Seth Feman and Jonathan Frederick Walz, eds. Alma W. Thomas: Everything Is Beautiful, exh. cat. (Columbus, GA: The Columbus Museum, 2021), 295, cat. 143 (color ill.).
• Neil Steinberg, “Art can take you to a particular place,” Chicago Tribune, Dec. 20, 2023, 2 (color ill.).
• James Rondeau, Paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago: Highlights of the Collection (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2025), 181 (color ill.).

The Bowman, frontispiece from The Epic of Kings, Stories Retold from Firdusi

Art Institute of Chicago

Alma Mahler

Art Institute of Chicago

Distant View of Niagara Falls

Art Institute of Chicago

Big Sur Bridge

Art Institute of Chicago

A Friendly Warning

Art Institute of Chicago

Capture of the Tripoli by the Enterprise

Art Institute of Chicago

New England Scenery

Art Institute of Chicago

Cotton Pickers

Art Institute of Chicago

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