Evening Glow was painted with acrylic paint on a poster-sized canvas. It's exact dimensions are 35 and 3/16 by 41 inches. Evening Glow is a painting of shimmering color, a bold field of blue animated by flashes of orange, red, yellow, and white. The colors of the painting are vibrant and the brushstrokes are indelicate. The essence of Evening Glow seem to reflect the world seen through young eyes, perhaps a blurred flash of memory. Evening Glow may also have been inspired by the dazzling reflections of a deep blue pond or quite possibly by the brilliant colors of an evening sky.

The blue brushstrokes of Evening Glow are strong and proportionate throughout the piece. They are evenly spread across the painting which gives the painting obvious balance. In retrospect, this sense of balance le

Alma Thomas was born in 1891 and initially grew up in a large home atop a hill in Columbus, Georgia. Throughout her life Thomas remembered the green lawns and circular flower beds of her childhood home. It was said that her painting "The Eclipse," a series of different colored rings surrounding a central circle, was meant to capture the memory of the spectacular sunsets Thomas frequently viewed from her hilltop home.

When Thomas was sixteen years old, her family moved to Washington, D.C., in order to take advantage of better educational opportunities for Alma and her three sisters. While attending a technical high school Alma excelled in Science, Math, and especially Art. After earning a teaching certificate, Alma accepted a job at a settlement home in Delaware where she taught arts and crafts to young children. Six years later Alma returned to Washington to attend Howard University and study costume design. However, she was convinced to abandon costume design and enroll in Howard University's new school for the fine arts.

After thirty-five years of public school teac

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