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Featured · Contemporary Art
Starry Night and the Astronauts
Acrylic on canvas
After decades as a representational painter, in her seventies Alma Thomas turned to abstraction, creating shimmering, mosaic-like fields of color with rhythmic dabs of paint that were often inspired by forms from nature…
| Work | Maker | Date | Medium |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starry Night and the Astronauts | Alma Thomas American, 1891–1978 | 1972 | Acrylic on canvas |
| The Bedroom | Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853–1890) | 1889 | Oil on canvas |
| Many Mansions | Kerry James Marshall American, born 1955 | 1994 | Acrylic on paper mounted on canvas |
| Untitled | Tanaka Atsuko Japanese, 1932-2005 | 1964 | Enamel on canvas |
| Paris Street; Rainy Day | Gustave Caillebotte (French, 1848–1894) | 1877 | Oil on canvas |
| A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884 | Georges Seurat (French, 1859–1891) | 1884–86, border added 1888–89 | Oil on canvas |
| Weaving | Diego Rivera (Mexican, 1886–1957) | 1936 | Tempera and oil on canvas |
| City Landscape | Joan Mitchell American, 1925-1992 | 1955 | Oil on linen |