Mym Tuma

She has created abstracted works on paper from oval, spherical, radial, branching and spiraling growth patterns found in nature. Her art conveys an understanding of universal structures in living things and how the process of conserving energy creates order. In 2005, Tuma authored Radiant Energy, Light In My Pastel Paintings. Her previous books include poetry in Awakening The Spirit, The Blue Planet Series, and essays on the creative process in The Shell Theory of the Sculptured Paintings, and O’Keeffe & Me: Abstracts of Our Letters.

During 2005, Mym Tuma exhibited work in the Merchants Bank gallery in South Hero, Vermont. Invited by curator Jeannie Peterson, the exhibition's featured painting was a calla lily in dark blue space, a stylized image tilting within a square representing ground zero. The stripes conjured up the memory of the twin towers from the view of them burning and later two memorial shafts of blue light.

A pastel exhibition curated by Henry Geldzahler, former curator of 20th Century Painting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, hung at the Clayton Liberatore Gallery, Bridgehampton. In 1992 she lectured at the Brooklyn Museum. Tuma is a charter member of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, and exhibits her sculptured paintings. She works on the East End of Long Island, NY. Examples of her work are on display at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, in Washington, DC.

Tuma first met O’Keeffe in 1964 and during the following decade the two artists discovered several common interests, including an enthusiasm for each other’s art. This is shown from the various handwritten letters between Georgia O'Keeffe and Tuma. An exhibit of her work hung in Edens Gallery during November 1987 during Columbia College’s “Georgia O'Keeffe Centennial Celebration.”

Mym Tuma (born 23 September 1940), also known as Marilynn Thuma, is an American painter and artist.