Alma Thomas

Born, 1886 - 1896 (probably 1891). Died, 1978

Alma Thomas was the first Black woman artist to have a one-person exhibition at the Whitney in New York. Her Mars Dust, 1972, was reproduced as part of ‘It’s Not Enough to Say “Black is Beautiful” ‘: Abstraction at the Whitney, 1969-1974, Kellie Jones, in Discrepant Abstraction, Copublished by inIVA and MIT Press, 2006. The section of Jones’ text in which Thomas’ work was discussed was Alma W. Thomas: 25 April - 28 May 1972.

The catalogue, Contemporary Black Artists in America (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, April 6 - May 16, 1971) had Alma Thomas’ year of birth as 1896.

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Book relating to a publication, 1997

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