# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alma-thomas
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:15:58.656Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alma-thomas"
name: "Alma Thomas"
slug: "alma-thomas"
description: "Alma Woodsey Thomas was an American artist and art teacher who lived and worked in Washington, D.C., and is now recognized as a major American painter of the 20th century. She is the first African-American woman to be included in the White House's permanent art collection. Thomas is best known for the \"exuberant\", colorful, abstract paintings that she created after she retired from a 35-year career teaching art at Washington's Shaw Junior High School."
tagline: "American painter and art educator (1891-1978)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Portrait_of_a_Lady_(Alma_Thomas).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1891-09-22"
deathDate: "1978-02-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.98
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.302744
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alma_Thomas"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A7_%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3"
    title: "ألما توماس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "الما توماس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alma_Thomasov%C3%A1"
    title: "Alma Thomasová"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alma_Thomas"
    title: "Alma Thomas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://dag.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alma_Thomas"
    title: "Alma Thomas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alma_Thomas"
    title: "Alma Thomas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alma_Thomas"
    title: "Alma Thomas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alma_Thomas"
    title: "Alma Thomas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alma_Thomas"
    title: "Alma Thomas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A2%D7%9C%D7%9E%D7%94_%D7%AA%D7%95%D7%9E%D7%90%D7%A1"
    title: "עלמה תומאס"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alma_Thomas"
    title: "Alma Thomas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://rw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alma_Thomas"
    title: "Alma Thomas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A7_%D8%AA%DA%BE%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B3"
    title: "الما تھامس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4733608"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump