Yvonne Thomas 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

Robert Motherwell

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, Mark Rothko

Mark Rothko

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, Barnett Newman

Barnett Newman

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, William Baziotes

William Baziotes

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 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

Blanche Oelrichs

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 and half-sister Diana Barrymore

Diana Barrymore

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; they had two daughters.

Her work is in the Corcoran Gallery of Art

Corcoran Gallery of Art

The Corcoran Gallery of Art is the largest privately supported cultural institution in Washington, DC. The museum's main focus is American art. The permanent collection includes works by Rembrandt, Eugène Delacroix, Edgar Degas, Thomas Gainsborough, John Singer Sargent, Claude Monet, Pablo...

, Fonds national d’Art Contemporain, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

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, National Gallery of Art

National Gallery of Art

The National Gallery of Art and its Sculpture Garden is a national art museum, located on the National Mall between 3rd and 9th Streets at Constitution Avenue NW, in Washington, DC...

, Washington, DC, and the Riverside Museum, New York City.

Her papers are held at the Archives of American Art

Archives of American Art

The Archives of American Art is the largest collection of primary resources documenting the history of the visual arts in the United States. More than 16 million items of original material are housed in the Archives' research centers in Washington, D.C...

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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
• 1993 Aspen Art Museum
  Aspen Art Museum
  Founded in 1979, the Aspen Art Museum is a non-collecting contemporary art museum located in the historic mountain community of Aspen, Colorado....
  
  

External links

• http://www.artnet.com/artists/yvonne-thomas/
• http://www.denisebibrofineart.com/artist/view/1044