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Condition: Faint horizontal strip of residue, approximately 1/2 x 9", u.l. quadrant (flouresces under black light); two minor losses to pigment u.r. quadrant; approximately 2" vertical pencil mark l.r. quadrant.


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Notes:
Provenance:
Charles Thomas Lewis, great-nephew of the artist, Washington, D.C.

Exhibited:
Alma Woodsey Thomas: A Retrospective of the Paintings, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN, September 5-November 8, 1998; Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL, January 10-March 21, 1999; New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ, April 17-June 13, 1999; Anacostia Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., July 16-September 12, 1998; The Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA, October 17, 1999-January 9, 2000.

Note:
Sachi Yanari discusses this painting in her introduction to the Alma Woodsey Thomas: A Painting Retrospective exhibition catalogue with the following, "Her last known work, the serene painting Rainbow (1978; cat. no. 54), is a screen of white strokes through which soft, hushed colors filter. It vividly epitomizes the critical role that light played in much of her best work. Thomas once copied down a quotation by the influential Bauhaus teacher Johannes Itten: Light, that first phenomenon of the world, reveals to us the spirit and the living soul of the world, through colors...[T]he colors of the rainbow and the northern lights soothe and elevate the soul. The rainbow is accounted a symbol of peace., p. 14.