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Alma Woodsey Thomas @artistawthomas #almathomas #almawoodseythomas
November 2, 2023 at 6:00 AM
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#Art #AlmaThomas
November 24, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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2) You'll find books about #GeorgiaOKeeffe #LouiseBourgeois #MaryCassatt #LauraWheelerWaring #BeatrixPotter #EdmoniaLewis #FaithRinggold #FlorineStettheimer #AlmaThomas #AugustaSavage #MaudLewis #RuthAsawa #LeonoraCarrington #FridaKahlo #YayoiKusama #RosaBonheur #AlmaThomas & more!
October 12, 2024 at 6:51 PM
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On a beautiful fall day, homage to #smithsonian and #AlmaThomas

#arthistory #womenartists #occupiedDC #GovernmentShutdown #blackartists
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Hope I see something as beautiful as this this fall...

"Autumn Leaves Fluttering in the Breeze"
Alma Woodsey Thomas, 1973

#womenartists
October 23, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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For Day 3 of Black History Month, art by Alma Thomas (1891-1978), inspiration for today’s art explorations with kiddos.

#BlackHistoryMonth #BlackMistoryMonth2025 #AlmaThomas #AfricanAmericanArt #Art #AbstractExpressionism
February 4, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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Light Blue Nursery, 1968, by #AlmaThomas (American, 1891-1978), who died #otd, Feb 24. Held by the Smithsonian American Art Museum, americanart.si.edu/artwork/ligh.... It was the 1st Thomas painting in this museum, now home to the largest public collection of her art. #womenartists #artherstory
February 24, 2024 at 1:35 PM
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Portrait of a Lady (Alma Thomas) by Laura Wheeler Waring (American) - Oil on canvas / 1947 - Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington DC) #WomenInArt #WomenArtists #WomensArt #art #AlmaThomas #LauraWheelerWaring #SAAM #Smithsonian #AfricanAmericanArtist #AfricanAmericanArt #BlackArtist #bskyart
Alma Woodsey Thomas was an African-American artist and art teacher who lived and worked in Washington, D.C., and is now recognized as a major American painter of the 20th century. She is the first African-American woman to be included in the White House's permanent art collection. Thomas is best known for the "exuberant", colorful, abstract paintings that she created after she retired from a 35-year career teaching art at Washington's Shaw Junior High School. In this portrait, fellow American artist Laura Wheeler Waring depicts Thomas in a deep red long-sleeved, buttoned dress, seated in a comfortable white chair with her arms folded across her abdomen, against a backdrop of a dark green background. Her gold bracelets, earrings, and collar clasp on the dress provide golden refinement. She is dignified and composed with her gaze directed slightly off to our right. A dark green backdrop creates a strong contrast with her deep crimson dress, drawing attention to her. The lighting suggests a soft, diffused light source, falling evenly on her features and dress, creating subtle highlights and shadows. Thomas was the first graduate of Howard University's art department, and maintained connections to that university through her life. She achieved success as an African-American female artist despite the segregation and prejudice of her time. Likewise, Waring was an African American artist and educator, most renowned for her realistic portraits, landscapes, still-life, and well-known African American portraitures she made during the Harlem Renaissance. She was one of the few African American artists in France, a turning point of her career and profession where she attained widespread attention, exhibited in Paris, won awards, and spent the next 30 years teaching art at Cheyney University in Pennsylvania. She passed away, at 60, less than a year after completing this elegant painting of Thomas who passed away in 1978 at the age of 86.
July 6, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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I recognize this from a the cover of "Letter to My Daughter" by Maya Angelou!

Of course, what a perfect author-artist connection.

#bookcovers #books #art #eclipse #mayaangelou #almathomas #abstract #color #painting #blackwomen #booksky
The cover of Maya Angelou's book, "Letter to My Daughter," featuring a background design by Alma Thomas, called "The Eclipse."
August 13, 2026 at 3:09 AM
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To even up the "history months," for the next 3 days, I will continue posting some work by a Black artist.
For "February 29th," I am posting work by Alma Thomas. (1/2)
#BlackHistoryMonth #AlmaThomas #painter
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March 1, 2026 at 3:09 PM
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Alma Thomas’s Red Azaleas Jubilee
By Patricia Hickson, Emily Hall Tremaine Curator of Contemporary Art at The Wadsworth
www.thewadsworth.org/almathomas/
Work by a Woman Artist | The Wadsworth
Alma Thomas's Red Azaleas Jubilee By Patricia Hickson, Emily Hall Tremaine Curator of Contemporary Art Alma Thomas (American, 1891-1978), Red Azaleas
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February 24, 2026 at 9:30 PM
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Our #ArtSection has blown back up, just in time for the holidays! #AYearofPicasso #AlbertoBurri #GabrieleMunter #Minimalism #AlmaThomas #GerhardRichter ##SusanRothenberg #Vuillard #EdRuscha #SuzanFrecon #Rogiervanderweyden #BaltimoreBookstore
November 23, 2024 at 6:27 AM
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Before heading outside to witness the solar eclipse, immerse yourself in one of the most iconic artworks in
the Smithsonian American Art Museum collection. “The Eclipse” is the last work #AlmaThomas created as part of her “Space” series.

americanart.si.edu/blog/alma-th...
April 8, 2024 at 6:59 PM
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The traveling exhibition Composing Color: Paintings by #AlmaThomas opens next at Chicago's Smart Museum of Art, where it runs March 24-July 5, smartmuseum.uchicago.edu/exhibitions/...

Read the illustrated #ArtHerstory review of the SAAM version of the show at artherstory.net/science-natu...
Alma Thomas at SAAM | Composing Color
An illustrated review of the art exhibition "Composing Color: The Paintings of Alma Thomas" at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
artherstory.net
February 24, 2026 at 9:30 PM
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We become not a melting pot, but a beautiful mosaic.
Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings,
different hopes, different dreams. - Jimmy Carter

Alma Woodsey Thomas, Red with a Touch of Orange, 1973
Acrylic on paper
6.625 inches in diameter

#art #mosaic #almathomas #jimmycarter
July 18, 2026 at 11:18 AM
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#almathomas #denverartmuseum #masterpiece
December 2, 2024 at 1:45 AM
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for Alma—
lunar rendezvous

homage to “Lunar Rendezvous—Circle of Flowers” by Alma Thomas, 1969

#art #photography #almathomas
Text "for Alma— / lunar rendezvous / homage to "Lunar Rendezvous—Circle of Flowers" by Alma Thomas, 1969" superimposed over a color photograph of a ferris wheel against an absolutely black sky
June 28, 2026 at 1:21 PM
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Red Azaleas Jubilee, 1976, by #AlmaThomas (American, 1891-1978), who died #otd Feb 24. Held by the Wadsworth Atheneum, 5058.sydneyplus.com/argus/final/...

#artherstory #womenartists
A vertically rectangular abstract painting of small, tesserae-like shapes painted on a white background, almost as though the author had painted a mosaic. According to curator Patricia Hickson’s museum blog post about this work, “The loosely painted but meticulously constructed red shapes have been partially overpainted with the addition of white paint. … The compact forms on the left side of the canvas give way to more airy spacing on the right in an abstract representation of patterns created by light shining through flowers and foliage.”
February 24, 2026 at 9:30 PM
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#AlmaThomas, Indianapolis Museum of Art at #Newfields
September 26, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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#blackhistorymonth #history #almathomas #artist
Alma Thomas: the first Black woman to have a show at the Whitney Museum of American Art and to have work acquired by the White House.
Info at www.womenshistory.org/education-re...
February 16, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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To even up the "history months," for the next 3 days, I will continue posting some work by a Black artist.
For "February 29th," I am posting work by Alma Thomas. (2/2)
#BlackHistoryMonth #AlmaThomas #painter
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March 1, 2026 at 3:11 PM
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Our ABLAZE WITH COLOR picture book biography was spotted in the wild 🌟 at the Denver Art Museum by
@dowphumiruk.bsky.social, the amazing illustrator and my fellow East West Literary cohort, at the #AlmaThomas exhibit!
December 11, 2024 at 5:07 PM
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For the Fogue Studios and Gallery “Steal Like an Artist” exhibit, I brought 2 Alma Thomas paintings together with joy to create, “Rhapsody (After Alma Thomas)”—do you see which 2?

Day 16 of #ArtAdventCalendar

“Rhapsody (After Alma Thomas)”
Acrylic, 24”x24”

#Art #Painting #AlmaThomas
Sea blue and lime green with highlights of hot pink and golden yellow come together in this work of Joy in honor of my painting icon, Alma Thomas—the first to graduate from Howard U’s fine art dept in 1924, the first Black woman artist to have a solo show at the Whitney Museum of American Art and whose painting, Revelation, was added to the White House Collection by Michelle Obama. Her painting, White Daisies Rhapsody, is on loan from the Smithsonian to Vice President Kamala Harris, who displays the painting created by her fellow Howard U alumna, Thomas, above her desk in the VP office.
December 15, 2024 at 6:20 PM
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There are 20 works by the artist currently on display at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in (or near!) Composing Color: Paintings by #AlmaThomas.

Read the illustrated #ArtHerstory review of the show at artherstory.net/science-natu...
Alma Thomas at SAAM | Composing Color
An illustrated review of the art exhibition "Composing Color: The Paintings of Alma Thomas" at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
artherstory.net
February 24, 2024 at 1:36 PM
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Creative Spotlight

In *The Eclipse* (1970), Alma Thomas turns a celestial event into a radiant field of color. Concentric arcs of yellow, orange, red, violet, blue, and green seem to pulse around a darkened center.

#CreativeSpotlight #AlmaThomas #AbstractArt
Alma Thomas’s abstract painting *The Eclipse* (1970). Thick, mosaic-like strokes form sweeping concentric bands around a large dark blue circular center positioned toward the upper right. Bright yellow and orange dominate the outer field, transitioning inward through vivid red, purple, turquoise, blue, and muted green. Narrow areas of white canvas remain visible between the brushstrokes, giving the painting a radiant, rhythmic sense of motion.
July 26, 2026 at 5:47 PM
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"Composing Color: Paintings by #AlmaThomas from the Smithsonian American Art Museum" is now open at the Denver Art Museum! The show is on view through January 12, 2025, & is included with general admission, free for members & visitors 18 & under.
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An abstract painting in blue and white
September 9, 2024 at 7:39 PM