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Field Trip! The Smart Museum Celebrates Alma Thomas' Dazzling Abstracts

Podcast: The Block Club Chicago Podcast
Published: May 30, 2026
Duration seconds: 1175
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Alma Thomas (1891–1978) is a singular figure of twentieth-century American art. She developed her form of abstraction – characterized by the dazzling interplay of pattern and hue – late in life, after retiring from a long career as a schoolteacher. Composing Color: Paintings by Alma Thomas draws on the extensive holdings of the artist’s paintings at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) and offers an intimate view of Thomas’s evolving practice during her most prolific period.