Yvonne Thomas

Yvonne Thomas (1913 Nice – August 7, 2009 Aspen, Colorado) was an American abstract artist. Education She enrolled at the Art Students League in 1938, where she studied with Vaclav Vytlacil and Dmitri Romanovsky. She attended the Ozenfant School of Fine Art and studied with the French Cubist, Amandé Ozenfant. In 1948, Thomas attended the Subject of the Artists School. There she interacted with William Baziotes, David Hare, Willem de Kooning, Arshile Gorky, Adolph Gottlieb, Hans Hofmann, Lee Krasner, Robert Motherwell, Barnett Newman, Jackson Pollock, Richard Pousette-Dart, Mark Rothko, and Clyfford Still. In 1950, Thomas studied with Hofmann at his school in Provincetown, Massachusetts. She was a member of the exclusive Artist's Club, which was only for male artists when it began in 1949. Exhibitions In 1951, Thomas took part in the Ninth Street Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture. Thomas was one of the few artists to be included in all five Ninth Street shows.