Eyedrops

Laura Youngson Coll

Happy birthday to the unparalleled Alma Thomas. Thomas, who was born on this day in Columbus, Georgia, spent most of her life in Washington DC, where her family moved in 1907 and where she later attended Howard University. “Hydrangeas Spring Song” is a masterpiece of the museum’s collection, created at the apex of Thomas’s career. Painted when she was eight-five years old and struggling with arthritis, Thomas deployed short, bursts of blue paint to capture the budding energy of springtime and the joy of painting.

Cassi Namoda

Photosynthesis at rest, 2025

Oil on linen

To live long is to see much

Esaias van Hulsen

Alice Brasser (Dutch,b.1965)

Rembrandt, 2016