Yvonne Thomas

Yvonne Thomas (1913 Nice – August 7, 2009 Aspen, Colorado) was an American abstract artist.

Life

She immigrated to the United States in 1925, and studied at The Cooper Union, and the Art Students League. She studied at the Subject of the Artist school, with Robert Motherwell, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, William Baziotes and David Hare. She was a member of the Artist's Club, and exhibited in the 9th Street Art Exhibition in 1951.

She married Leonard Thomas Jr. whose mother was the poet Blanche Oelrichs and half-sister Diana Barrymore; they had two daughters.[1]

Her work is in the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Fonds national d’Art Contemporain, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, and the Riverside Museum, New York City.[2]

Her papers are held at the Archives of American Art.[3]

Exhibitions
  • 2006 "The Yellow Paintings," Lohin Geduld Gallery
  • 2004 "New York School Artists: Works of ‘40s and ‘50s," Anita Shapolsky Gallery
  • 2002 "New York Paintings from the 1950s", Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago
  • 2002 "Journeys: Part II"; Cornell DeWitt Gallery, New York City
  • 2001 "Journeys: Part I"; Cornell DeWitt Gallery, New York
  • 2000 "Yvonne Thomas 'Early Works, 1955–1962'", Denise Bibro Fine Art[4]
  • 1993 Aspen Art Museum
  • 1991 "New Work," Philippe Briet Gallery, New York, June.
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References
  1. "Yvonne Thomas". The Aspen Times. September 4, 2009.
  2. "Yvonne Thomas". Anita Shapolsky Gallery NYC.
  3. "Yvonne Thomas papers, 1955–1979". Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved August 4, 2011.
  4. Grace Glueck (January 7, 2000). "ART IN REVIEW; Yvonne Thomas – 'Early Works, 1955–1962'". The New York Times.



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