this painting speaks to me

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Laura Wheeler Waring, <em>Portrait of Alma Thomas</em>, ca. 1945, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Vincent Melzac 1977. Via Smithsonian Art Museum
Laura Wheeler Waring, Portrait of Alma Thomas, ca. 1945, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Vincent Melzac 1977. Via Smithsonian Art Museum / Block Shop Textiles.

“Alma Thomas began to paint seriously in 1960 [at age 69!!!!!], when she retired from her thirty-eight year career as an art teacher in the public schools of Washington, D.C. In the years that followed she would come to be regarded as a major painter of the Washington Color Field School.”

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