This lightweight cotton voile sarong features the vibrant painting Forsythia and Pussy Willows Begin Spring, 1970, showcased in the exhibition Pop to Present. This piece exemplifies Thomas’s signature style, as it contains dabs of vibrant colour in a succession of carefully placed columns to convey the beauty of her garden, which included bright yellow forsythia leaves and pussy willow catkins. The staccato marks of the artist’s brush mimic the linear stalks of these plants with buds dotting the branches. Breaking up these spots of colour is the canvas’s gesso ground, whose brightness evokes sunlight peeking through the abstracted leaves and flowers.
