Alma Thomas’s 1973 masterpiece, Red Rose Cantata, represents a pinnacle of late-career Washington Color School abstraction. Created during her most celebrated period, this work translates the rhythmic cadence of nature into a vibrant mosaic of color and light. Thomas, the first African American woman to have a solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, utilized her signature rhythmic, broken brushstrokes to evoke the sensory experience of a garden in full bloom. This archival reproduction preserves the intense chromatic relationships and structural integrity of the original composition. Each format is finished with a refined, gallery-ready presentation, featuring a clean white gallery border that floats the artwork in standard proportions with no cropping, ensuring the historical composition remains entirely intact.
About Your Border
Every format — Fine Art Print, Framed Fine Art Print, Canvas and Framed Canvas — is supplied with a clean white gallery border framing the image on all four sides. The border is sized in proportion to the piece — approximately 10% of the shortest edge on each side (for example, about 3 cm of white border on a 30 cm-wide piece) — so the artwork keeps its standard proportions with no cropping and is ready to hang or frame straight away. If you prefer, you can also place your own mount/mat on top.
Would you like a different border width, a borderless full-bleed version, or any other adjustment? Just let us know within 24 hours of ordering and we'll tailor it for you at no extra cost.
