Yvonne Thomas enrolled at the Art Students League in 1938, where she studied with Vaclav Vytlacil and Dmitri Romanovsky.
16 Facts About Yvonne Thomas
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Yvonne Thomas attended the Ozenfant School of Fine Art and studied with the French Cubist, Amande Ozenfant.
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In 1948, Thomas attended the Subject of the Artists School.
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In 1950, Yvonne Thomas studied with Hofmann at his school in Provincetown, Massachusetts.
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Yvonne Thomas was a member of the exclusive Artist's Club, which was only for male artists when it began in 1949.
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In 1951, Yvonne Thomas took part in the Ninth Street Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture.
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Yvonne Thomas was one of the few women artists to be included in all five Ninth Street shows.
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In 1955, Yvonne Thomas was one of eleven artists represented in a show at the Riverside Museum, New York.
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Yvonne Thomas exhibited alongside Franz Kline, Milton Avery, Kenzo Okada, and Leon Polk Smith.
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In 1956, Yvonne Thomas had her first solo show at Tanager Gallery.
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In 1960, Yvonne Thomas had her second New York show, which was held at the Esther Stuttman Gallery in New York.
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When Yvonne Thomas had another solo exhibition in 1961, held at Galerie Agnes Lefort in Montreal.
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In 1962 through 1964, Yvonne Thomas was featured in one-artist shows in New York; Aspen, Colorado; and East Hampton, New York.
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Yvonne Thomas continued to paint and actively exhibit her art until the end of her life.
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Yvonne Thomas's 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.
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Yvonne Thomas's papers are held at the Archives of American Art.