Miss Alma Thomas: A Life in Color

An overnight success, 80 years in the making.

Duration: 20 min
Release date: 2021-07-15
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Alma W. Thomas lived a life of firsts: the first Fine Arts graduate of Howard University (1924), the first Black woman to mount a retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art (1972), and the first Black woman to have her paintings exhibited in the White House (2009). Yet she did not receive national attention until she was 80.

Documentary

Miss Alma Thomas: A Life in Color

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