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    Books your creative friends actually will want on their coffee table

    by Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times Nov 19, 2021 4 minutes

    Books to read, books for looking at the pictures, books to read while looking at the pictures. Here are a variety of recent options for the art-interested:

    'Alma W. Thomas: Everything Is Beautiful'

    Seth Feman and Jonathan Frederick Walz; Yale University Press; 336 pages

    Alma W. Thomas was 80 in the spring of 1972, when she now-famously became the first Black woman to have a solo exhibition at New York's Whitney Museum, then the flagship institution supporting American art. Her late abstractions, composed from dazzling acrylic color marks, are her best-known paintings. This catalog to a large traveling survey co-organized by the Chrysler Museum in Virginia and the Columbus Museum in Georgia, which houses the artist's personal ephemera and a trove of

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