Muted Birds
Artist
Mary Leath Thomas
American, 1905–1959
Datebefore 1946
MediumGouache on paper
Dimensionsoverall: 14 5/8 × 21 in. (37.1 × 53.3 cm)
frame: 22 1/2 × 28 1/2 × 1 5/8 in. (57.2 × 72.4 × 4.1 cm)
frame: 22 1/2 × 28 1/2 × 1 5/8 in. (57.2 × 72.4 × 4.1 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineGift of the artist's family
Object numberG.67.34.1
On View
Not on viewPublished ReferencesNorth Carolina Artists' Tenth Annual Exhibition (brochure) (Raleigh: North Carolina State Arts Society, 1946), no. 42.
"Acquisitions," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 9, nos. 1 and 2 (December 1969), listed 58.
200 Years of the Visual Arts in North Carolina (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1976), cat. no. 53, illus. (b-w).
Jonathan Stuhlman and Martha R. Severens, ed., Southern/Modern: Rediscovering Southern Art from the First Half of the Twentieth Century (exhibition catalogue) (Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2023), 218, fig. 183 (illus. color) (catalogue only, not in exhibition).Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, State Art Gallery, State Library Building, "North Carolina Artists' Tenth Annual Exhibition, December 4, 1946-January 18, 1947, no. 42.
Bloomington, IL, Illinois Wesleyan University, 1947.
Bristol, VA, Virginia Intermont College, “6th Annual Regional Exhibition,” 1949.
Charleston, SC, “South Carolina Annual Exhibit[?],” 1949.
New York, NY, Weyhe Gallery, May 22–July 28, 1950.
Greensboro, NC, Weatherspoon Art Gallery and Elliott Hall Lobby, Woman's College, "Mary Leath Thomas Painting Exhibition," February 8-27, 1954.
Greensboro, NC, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Woman's College of the University of North Carolina, “Mary Leath Thomas: A Memorial Exhibition,” April 10–30, 1961.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "200 Years of the Visual Arts in North Carolina," September 12-October 31, 1976, cat. no. 53, illus. (b-w).
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