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=== Recent Works ===
He worked on his most well knowknown Panel Portraits between 1973 - 1978. It was a series of 48 portraits of famous people he admired. In the 1980's he began working on a series of white paintings characterized by being painted mostly white. <ref>http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/2007/107.html?page=3</ref>
 
== Solo Exhibitions ==
Chimes has had numerous solo exhibitions. According to a 2007 Philadelphia Museum of Art press release, "By the early 1960s Chimes had enjoyed successful solo shows at the Avant-Garde and [[Bodley Gallery|Bodley Galleries]] in New York."<ref>http://www.philamuseum.org/press/releases/2007/561.html</ref> Many important solo exhibitions followed, including "Thomas Chimes: A Retrospective Exhibition", at the Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, in 1968; Tom Chimes, A Compendium: 1961-1986, at Moore College of Art in Philadelphia in 1986; and Thomas Chimes: Survey at the Alexander Onassis Center for Hellenic Studies, New York, in 1994. In 1975, his work was included in the Whitney Biennial, and in the following year he was represented in the Philadelphia Museum of Art's landmark exhibition Three Centuries of American Art.