Alma Thomas

1891–1978 · Mosaics of light from a schoolteacher's late start

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The short version

Thomas began exhibiting seriously in her seventies, building shimmering grids of short brushmarks from gardens, space flight and Washington sunlight.

Key works

1966

Concentric bands of colour, humming like a struck bell.

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