In 2015, Alma Thomas’s Resurrection became the first publicly-displayed work by an African-American woman from a collection in this city. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this city that houses abstract expressionist paintings like Pollock’s Lavender Mist and Thomas’s Pansies in [this city]. A man sits on a chair with folded arms surrounded by leaves and flowers in a Kehinde Wiley portrait housed in this city.
ANSWER: Washington, D.C. [accept D.C. or the District of Columbia] (The Wiley portrait is of Obama.)
[10h] Alma Thomas’s work is characterized by this aspect, which she equated with life. Thomas was a member of a school of painters in Washington, D.C. named for this concept that was founded by artists like Morris Louis.
ANSWER: color [accept color field]
[10e] NASA missions inspired a Thomas painting titled for this two word-phrase “and the astronauts.” A cypress tree appears on the left of a painting titled for this two-word phrase that van Gogh painted from the window of his asylum.
ANSWER: starry night [accept De Sterrennacht or Starry Night and the Astronauts; prompt on partial answer]
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