Miss Alma Thomas: A Life in Color

"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.

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Heavy Petting

Heavy Petting

1989

Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie

Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie

1988

Femme

Femme

2013

Cofralandes, Chilean Rhapsody

Cofralandes, Chilean Rhapsody

2002

A Walk Through Prospero's Library

1992

Hitler's Forgotten Victims

1997

The Hustle of @617MikeBiv

The Hustle of @617MikeBiv

2023

Moving On

Moving On

2022

Sometimes It's Gonna Hurt

1983

Winning: The Racing Life of Paul Newman

Winning: The Racing Life of Paul Newman

2015

Why Horror?

Why Horror?

2014

The Devil and the Death Penalty

2012

A Cambodian Spring

A Cambodian Spring

2018

Screen Snapshots (Series 12, No. 2)

Screen Snapshots (Series 12, No. 2)

1932

Punitive Damage

Punitive Damage

1999

The Curious Case of Inspector Clouseau

The Curious Case of Inspector Clouseau

2002

Celluloid Underground

Celluloid Underground

2023

No Accident

No Accident

2023

Stephen Fry's Key to the City

Stephen Fry's Key to the City

2013

Anything Is Possible

Anything Is Possible

2015