2019: A Year in Review

In 2019, the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Art Foundation acquired 80 artworks across the fields of Digital and Electronic Art, Spanish Colonial Art, Post-War Painting and Sculpture, and Japanese Bamboo. We have an active acquisition program that we exhibit publicly and loan to museums and institutions across the country, and are proud to announce several artworks acquired over the past year.

SELECT ACQUISITION HIGHLIGHTS

Digital art

Catherine’s Room, a 2001 five-channel video by Bill Viola, chronicles a day in the private life of a woman at home. This artwork was recently exhibited at the Barnes Foundation.

ART OF THE SPANISH AMERICAS

Our Lady of Copacabana, an 18th century oil painting with gold by an unidentified artist, ornamentally depicts the Virgin as the patron saint of the Canary Islands.

ART OF THE SPANISH AMERICAS

Saint Joseph and Christ Child, an 18th century painting by an unidentified artist, shows an affectionate embrace between the Holy Child and Saint Joseph.

JAPANESE BAMBOO

Furusato no uta is a vessel created by Ranpōsai Noguchi, a bamboo artist known for being one of the first to push the media from formal, traditional vessels into more sculptural art objects.

ELECTRONIC ART

John Gerrard‘s print Western Flag (Spindletop, Texas) 2017 digitally simulates a memorial flag constructed like an oil rig on the site of the first rig of the U.S. oil boom.

Visit our Collections page to explore more of our recent acquisitions.