“An overnight success, 80 years in the making.”
Miss Alma Thomas: A Life in Color
10.0
1 votes·2021
·20m
·MovieDocumentary
Overview
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.
Keywords
washington dc, usaartistpainterartafrican american
Cast
Alfre Woodard
Alma Thomas (voice)
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