From NY to Nebo: The Artistic Journey of Eugene ThomasonA product of the industrialized New South, Eugene Healan Thomason (1895 1972) made the obligatory pilgrimage to New York to advance his art education and launch his career. Like so many other aspiring American artists, he understood that the city offered unparalleled personal and professional opportunitiesprestigious schools, groundbreaking teachers, and an intoxicating cosmopolitan milieufor a promising young painter in the early 1920s. The patronage