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47 Anacostia Neighborhood Museum, The Barnett-Aden Collection, (Washington, D.C.: Smithsoian Institution Press, 1974) 11. The gallery was named after Naomi Barnett Aden, mother of Alonzo.

48 Ibid.

49 The Barnett-Aden Collection is now housed in the Museum of Afro-American Art in Tampa, Florida. For additional discussion of the Barnett-Aden Gallery, see Keith Morrison, Art in Washington and Its Afro-American Presence: 1940-1970 (Washington, D.C.: Washington Project for the Arts, 1985).

50 Morrison, 31.

51 Interview with Lois Mailou Jones, 4706 17th Street, N.W., Washington D.C., 29 October 1986. Artists/members of "The Little Paris Studio" were Lois Mailou Jones, Celine Tabary, Alma Thomas, Delilah Pierce, Barbara Buckner, Elizabeth Watson, Bruce Brown, Barbara Linger, Frank West, Don Roberts, Richard Dempsey, Desdemona Wade.

52 Munro, 193-94

53 Ibid.

54 Alma W. Thomas Retrospective Exhibition (Washington, D.C.: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1972) n.p.

55 Romare Bearden and Harry Henderson, A History of African American Artists: From 1972 to the Present (New York: Pantheon, 1993) 450.

56 Ibid.

57 Judith Wilson interview with Jacob Kainen, Washington D.C., 1 July 1978.

58. Merry A Forresta, A Life in Art: Alma Thomas 1891-1978 (Washington, D.C.: National Museum of American Art, 1981) 20.

59 Judith Wilson Interview with Jacob Kainen, Washington, D.C., 1 July 1978.

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