Miss Alma Thomas: A Life in Color

IMDb 10.0 2021 • 20 min • Documentary

Director

Cheri Gaulke

Country

Plot Summary

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.

Top Cast

Alfre Woodard
Alfre Woodard Alma Thomas (voice)

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