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Miss Alma Thomas: A Life in Color

2021 · 20m · Documentary

An overnight success, 80 years in the making.

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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.

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Release date
July 15, 2021
Status
Released
Original language
English
Runtime
20m
Budget
$35,000
Genres
Documentary

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