Carolyn Russo, curator of the Museum’s art collection, reflects on the work of Alma W. Thomas. Carolyn Russo In the late 1960s and early 1970s, artist Alma Woodsey Thomas (1891–1978) painted ...

Elizabeth Dale-Deines & Gwen Manthey Alma Thomas was an integral part of the Black art world during her lifetime ... other members of the Civil Rights Movement at the March on Washington.

Alma Thomas, Pansies in Washington, 1969, Acrylic on canvas, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C ... “While making no direct reference to either movement,” we are told, “her work nonetheless ...

A long overdue retrospective for the late artist Alma Thomas has touched down at the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia. The exhibition, titled “Everything Is Beautiful ...

The Italianate house was inspirational for Alma Thomas, whose work is displayed in Smithsonian museums and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Alma Thomas (American, 1891-1978) spent 38 years as a Washington, D.C., public school art teacher before her painting career took off. In 1972, in her 80s, she was the first African American woman to ...

Alma Thomas, a painter, educator and the first African American woman to have a solo exhibition of her work in the Whitney Museum of Art. It is a wonderful show presenting more than 350 objects made ...

On July 14, an exhibition of works by the color field painter Alma ... Art, Herring had just established. 2. She taught art to junior high school students for over three decades. In 1924 ...

“Alma Thomas really wanted her art to do something for people,” said Seth Feman, co-curator of the show and deputy director for art and interpretation and curator of photography at the ...