“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 ...

After a career as a schoolteacher, the Washington, D.C.-based painter flourished, creating vibrant patterns inspired by nature, the cosmos and music Shantay Robinson - Museum Correspondent Alma Thomas ...

Columbia artist Diana Thomas grew up near the Susquehanna River and has long felt its pull. So when she decided she wanted to make art more of a priority in her busy life, a plan began to formulate in ...

Alma Thomas is a singular figure in the story of twentieth-century American art. She developed her exuberant form of abstract painting late in life, after retiring from a long career as a ...