
An overnight success, 80 years in the making.
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.
Alfre Woodard

44 Pages
2018

Bone Wind Fire
2011

Raphael: The Lord of the Arts
2017

Joseph Cornell: Worlds in a Box
1991

Cindy Sherman: Nobody's Here But Me
1994

Aivazovsky and Armenia
1983

In the Shade of Fallen Chinar
2016

Scenes Seen with Allen Jones
1970

Jesus Christ Saviour
2008

A Day on the Grand Canal with the Emperor of China or: Surface Is Illusion But So Is Depth
1988

Magicians of the Earth: Kings of the Water
1991

An American Story: Race Amity and The Other Tradition
2018