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Posted: April 12, 2017

Hoy features Doctrine and Devotion

This week Hoy, the largest Spanish-language daily newspaper in Chicago, published a print piece and video story on Doctrine and Devotion: Art of the Religious Orders in the Spanish Andes, an exhibition of 13 Spanish colonial paintings from the Collection of Carl & Marilynn Thoma. The ...

Posted: March 22, 2017

Alexander Nemerov Presents the 66th Annual A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts

From March 26 through May 7, 2017, Alexander Nemerov, department chair and Carl and Marilynn Thoma Provostial Professor in the Arts and Humanities at Stanford University will present the 66th A. W. Mellon ...

Posted: March 20, 2017

Passion for the Arts at the McKnight Center

Following an extensive national search, on March 3, 2017, Oklahoma State University announced Mark Blakeman has been selected as the inaugural Marilynn and Carl Thoma Executive Director of The McKnight Center for ...

Posted: March 3, 2017

Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern

Opening today, the Brooklyn Museum’s Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern exhibition has received a wonderful review from the New York Times’ co-chief art critic Roberta Smith. The museum received a grant from the Thoma Foundation to support ...

Posted: January 30, 2017

Acquisition Highlight: St. Francis Xavier

Born in Spain in 1506 to a noble Basque family, Francis Xavier was a companion of Ignatius of Loyola, and a co-founder of the Society of Jesus, a religious order better known ...

Posted: January 25, 2017

John Gerrard: Animated Scene Lecture at the University of New Mexico

The Foundation, in partnership with the University of New Mexico (UNM) Art Museum, presents John Gerrard: Animated Scene, a lecture event on Wednesday, March 1, 2017 at 6pm in Garcia Honda Auditorium, George Pearl ...

Posted: January 24, 2017

Meet the Team: Kate Weinstein

Kate Weinstein joined the Foundation team in December 2016 as our Collections Manager. Based in Chicago, Kate is responsible for the safe transport and care of the Foundation’s myriad collections, our new ...

Posted: January 10, 2017

Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern

Opening on March 3, the Brooklyn Museum’s Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern exhibition has received a grant from the Thoma Foundation to support the publication of a book that will expand scholarship and bring new ...

Posted: January 10, 2017

Acquisition Highlight: Portrait of Joaquín Arias de Saavedra y Santa Cruz, 1785

A new addition to the Foundation’s collection of artwork from the Spanish colonial period, this nearly life-sized portrait depicts Joaquín Arias de Saavedra y Santa Cruz, 5th Marquis of Moscoso and 13th Count ...

Posted: December 20, 2016

Spanish Colonial Art at the Blanton Museum

The Thoma Foundation has underwritten a three-year Associate Curatorship of Spanish Colonial Art at the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, Texas. The position correlates to a long-term loan to the Blanton ...