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 ...

“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 ...

“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 ...

She was a pioneer in American abstract art, achieving multiple firsts and breaking barriers for women in the visual arts,” ...

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 ...

The Alma Thomas papers capture my fancy because of my long-standing interest in this African American female teacher and painter who lived and worked for much of her life in Washington, D.C. until her ...

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 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 ...

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 ...