Yvonne Thomas was born in Nice, France and moved to the United States in 1925. Thomas was nearly forty years old and an accomplished painter when the 9th Street Show opened in 1951. She had already abandoned a promising career as a commercial artist and fashion illustrator in the thirties to pursue painting.

Her earliest training in New York was under Alphaeus P. Cole at Cooper Union. In 1948 she met Patricia Matta, wife of the famous Surrealist, who introduced her to a group of abstract painters forming a school called Subjects of the Artist. She enrolled and found a new home.

Today Thomas lives in New York City.

Yvonne Thomas was born in Nice, France in 1913. She came to the United States in 1925 and studied at Cooper Union, the Art Students League, Ozenfant School of Art, NY, and at the Hans Hofmann School of Art.

Schools:
1949 'Subject of the Artist' school (with Robert Motherwell, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, William Baziotes and David Hare)
1942 Ozenfant School of Art
1940 Art Students League
1928 Cooper Union

Collections:
Atlantic Richfield, Los Angeles, CA
Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Ciba-Geigy Collection, Greensboro, NC
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
First Pennsylvania Bank, Philadelphia, PA
Fondacion National D'Art Contemporain, Paris, France
Guggenheim Museum, New York
Loeb Center, New York University, New York
Metropolitan Insurance Company, New York
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Riverside Museum, New York