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Margaret Tomkins is recognized as an accomplished abstract painter whose leadership and outspoken activism influenced Seattle’s early art scene. She was central figure to establishing Modernism in the Pacific Northwest, in the 1940s. And she created Seattle’s first artist run gallery, Artists Gallery, in 1958, as an alternative to the “Northwest School.”
Tompkins's abstractions were intricate patterns of organic forms. By the 1960s, the artist had abandoned color, preferring muted tones, as reflected in this painting.