Alma Thomas: Flying Over.
Her career took off in 1972 -- but that's the least interesting part of the story.
Alma Thomas’s market and reputation have grown dizzyingly in the past five years1—the only paintings in her top twenty earners that were sold before her Resurrection was added to the White House’s collection in 20152 would almost certainly be seven-figure pictures if they sold today. It’s not hard to guess at the driver of that market: Thomas, a known qua…
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