The first Black woman to headline a solo show at the Whitney, the artist created abstract paintings, marionettes and more Isis Davis-Marks Correspondent The late African American artist Alma Thomas ...

A particularly rare painting by African-American artist Alma Thomas, one which until recently was in a South Carolina museum, has been sold for a record-breaking $2.8 million — and its buyer remains a ...

2 Watch: Next On Stage's High School & College Top 5 Revealed 3 Watch: Next On Stage Season 6 Finalists Revealed The Frist Art Museum presents Alma W. Thomas: Everything Is Beautiful, a comprehensive ...

“Composing Color: Paintings by Alma Thomas” draws on the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s extensive holdings of Alma Thomas’ art to offer an intimate view of her evolving practice during her most ...

WASHINGTON — By the end of her career, Alma Thomas enjoyed considerable critical and popular success. She was the first African American female artist to be given a solo show at the Whitney Museum, in ...

EXCLUSIVE: The Alma Thomas House illustrates how D.C.’s booming real estate market ramped up the rate of gentrification Howard University’s first fine arts graduate, Alma Thomas, walked the streets of ...

Alma Woodsey Thomas was an American painter best known for her colorful, abstract compositions. She frequently translated art historical references, natural phenomena, and personal aesthetic through ...

WETA Arts explores the remarkable life and career of barrier breaking artist Alma Thomas. WETA Arts explores the remarkable life and career of Alma Thomas, a black Washington-based artist whose works ...

D.C. Councilmember Christina Henderson; Charles Thomas Lewis, Alma Thomas' grandnephew; D.C. Councilmember Brooke Pinto; and Susan Talley, founder of Friends of Alma Thomas Christina Henderson Two ...

Alma Thomas developed her unique abstract painting style only after retiring at age 68, in 1960, as a Washington, D.C., junior-high-school teacher. She called her forms “Alma’s Stripes” for their ...