{"id":16670,"date":"2020-04-24T19:51:55","date_gmt":"2020-04-25T00:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/?p=16670"},"modified":"2020-10-04T18:52:28","modified_gmt":"2020-10-04T23:52:28","slug":"this-painting-speaks-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/24\/this-painting-speaks-to-me\/","title":{"rendered":"this painting speaks to me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"543\" height=\"650\" src=\"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/SAAM-1977.121_1.jpg\" alt=\"Laura Wheeler Waring, <em&gt;Portrait of Alma Thomas<\/em&gt;, ca. 1945, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Vincent Melzac 1977. Via Smithsonian Art Museum\" class=\"wp-image-16672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/SAAM-1977.121_1.jpg 543w, https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/SAAM-1977.121_1-251x300.jpg 251w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 543px) 100vw, 543px\" \/><figcaption>Laura Wheeler Waring, <em>Portrait of Alma Thomas<\/em>, ca. 1945, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Vincent Melzac 1977. Via <a href=\"https:\/\/americanart.si.edu\/artist\/alma-thomas-4778\">Smithsonian Art Museum<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/blockshoptextiles\/spring-workshop-tickets-now-live-1242173?e=d6fe3418cc\">Block Shop Textiles<\/a>. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/americanart.si.edu\/artist\/alma-thomas-4778\">Alma Thomas<\/a> 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.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;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.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16670"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17249,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16670\/revisions\/17249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}