Yvonne Thomas

(1913 – 2009) 

Yvonne Thomas was an American abstract artist.
Although she always saw her work as rooted in the American modernist vernacular, Thomas remained connected to the art and culture of Europe where she spent formative years as a child; she maintained close friendships with fellow European émigré artists including Willem de Kooning and Marcel Duchamp.
 

In 2016, she was one of the artists included in Women of Abstract Expressionism exhibition catalogue, a traveling exhibition organized by the Denver Art Museum. The accompanying catalogue, consisting of essays by several scholars, celebrated “the special contributions of women to Abstract Expressionism,” providing an “essential corrective” to what has been the “unequal accounting of women’s contributions” to the movement.

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Portrait
1956
Oil on linen
96.5 × 114.3 cm
Private Collection