Alma Thomas,
Wind Dancing with Spring Flowers (1969). Courtesy of the Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire.
A long overdue retrospective for the late artist Alma Thomas has touched down at the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia.
The exhibition, titled “Everything Is Beautiful,” showcases little known aspects of the artist’s life and career, such as her interests in gardening and fashion, and her early student works. It was co-organized with the Columbus Museum in the artist’s hometown of Columbus, Georgia.
“One of the goals of the show has been to have a Columbus-originated story,” Jonathan Frederick Walz, the Columbus Museum’s curator of American art, told Artnet News. “There seems to be this received wisdom that Thomas only became an artist after she stopped teaching in the classroom in 1960, but the material that we had at the museum made us realize that, in fact, she had been making art all along.”
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Monday 22 February 2021
Front exterior of Ham House in 2016 with Coade stone statue of Father Thames, by John Bacon the elder, in the foreground
Courtesy of the National Trust
For nearly 350 years, a portrait of the 16th-century aristocrat Sir John Maitland of Thirlestane (1543-1595) hung in a dark corner in the Long Gallery at Ham House. To the astonishment of art historians, this innocuous portrait of a somewhat forgotten figure Maitland, who was the Lord Chancellor of Scotland under King James VI was concealing a centuries-lost portrait of Mary Stuart, colloquially known as Mary, Queen of Scots (1542 – 1587).
Portrait of John Maitland from Ham House being prepared for work at the conservation studio in Kent