Alma Thomas in her studio, ca. 1968 / Ida Jervis, photographer. Alma Thomas papers, circa 1894-2001. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. An alumna of the D.C. Public Schools (and ...

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 ...

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of the artist, 1980.36.9 By the time Alma Thomas retired in 1960, she’d had a successful career. The first graduate of Howard University’s fine art ...

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

In 1924, a young woman named Alma Thomas posed that question in her college yearbook. Thomas was the first graduate of Howard University’s newly formed department of art. Her groundbreaking ...

“Guarding the Art” presented an opportunity to both ... “The Creeks” (1957) and Alma Thomas’s Evening Glow (1972). “I just love how it’s such a confrontational painting,” he ...

A Rembrandt in Denver. A Botticelli in Flint, Michigan. A Rothko in Boise. An O’Keeffe in Anchorage. Masterpieces from the collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. will soon be on ...

“I think Alma would approve,” Roth-Jacobs said, noting Thomas’s 35 years as an art teacher at Shaw Junior High School. She might also approve of the artists in the house. The couple’s ...