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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Snoopy Sees Earth Wrapped in Sunset” by Alma Thomas is part of “Composing Color: Paintings by Alma Thomas from the Smithsonian American Art Museum,” which will be displayed at the Indianapolis Museum ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Alma Woodsey Thomas took her time. The Black educator and famed artist sketched, coded, cut and rearranged her work on paper before brushing strokes of color across her canvases. She then marked each ...

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 ...

Alma Thomas, “Apollo 12 “Splash Down”” (1970), acrylic and graphite on canvas, 50 1/4 x 50 1/4 inches (courtesy Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY) We should all be inspired by Alma Thomas’s ...

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 She frequently translated art historical references, natural phenomena, and personal aesthetic through ...

A painting by the artist Alma W. Thomas, which had been selected to go on Michelle Obama's wall in her East Wing office, will no longer be mounted. "The reason why it was moved was because it didn't ...