ATMOSPHERIC. In the mid-1950s, Yvonne Thomas loosened the Cubist structures she had used earlier, employing more gestural handling to create works that were more expressively free. The personal quality in these paintings was deemed “American” by Stuart Preston in a review of a three-artist show at Tanager Gallery in 1954, in which Thomas was included. Preston singled out the work of Thomas and Miriam Schapiro, calling both “talented” and “comparatively unknown” artists who distilled “non-specific emotional moods in a language of restless brushwork and fitful color.”Also reviewing the show, Dore Ashton observed the “landscape feeling” in Thomas’s oils and commented: “Hers is a delicate, very subtle intonation, adjusted to atmospheric rather than energetic forces in nature. [Yvonne Thomas “Exploration” 1954 oil on linen 40 x 51 1/2 inches] #yvonnethomas #thomas #9thstreetwomen #9thstreetshow #womenartists #1050s #womenofabstractexpressionism #atmospheric #abstraction #oilpaintings #abstractpaintings #expressionism #brushwork #tanagergallery #artreview #doreashton #estaterepresentation #5womenartists #berrycampbell (at Berry Campbell) https://www.instagram.com/p/B8usMUfF_x-/?igshid=2n4q2kzwbl8d

Berry Campbell Gallery exclusively represents the Estate of Yvonne Thomas. [Yvonne Thomas “Wind” 1958 oil on canvas 11 1/4 x 14 1/4 inches] #yvonnethomas #womenofabstractexpressionism #abstractexpressionist #oilpainting #1950s #berrycampbell #artgallery (at Berry Campbell)

Berry Campbell now represents The Yvonne Thomas Estate. Thomas is our fall season opener on Thursday, September 7, 2017 from 6 to 8pm. [Yvonne Thomas "Highway" 1957 oil on canvas 50 x 60 inches] #yvonnethomas #womenartists #abstractpainting #womenofabstractexpressionism #abex #1950s #theclub #berrycampbell #gallery #newyork #chelsea #groundfloor #modern #contemporary #art (at Berry Campbell)

A Bark frame -- milled in maple with a custom paint casein finish -- surrounds a painting by Yvonne Thomas. #Repost Glenn Gissler Design . . . ART CAN MAKE a ROOM “The Studio”, 1952, a wonderful painting by Yvonne Thomas brings light and abstract beauty to this Living Room. In the hall, a 1970’s painting by Larry Poons, compliments the extensive collection of mid-century abstraction. Yvonne Thomas’ curiosity and commitment to excellence had her study extensively at a rich variety of schools including the Cooper Union, Art Students League, Ozenfant School, Subject of the Artists School and with Hans Hoffman in Provincetown. The results of so many diverse points of view was a personal manner of abstraction. While Thomas was included in numerous exhibitions with artists we now see as visionaries and experienced some critical attention, like many woman in the arts her work was taken less seriously than men. We are proud to have successfully placed two of her paintings with sophisticated art collectors who saw the caliber of her work, seizing the opportunity to include her paintings in their collections. 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. “Like other women who embraced abstraction, Thomas did not gain renown equal to that of the male artists of her time. However, a consideration of her career reveals that the issues she addressed, the organizations in which she took part, and the zeitgeist of her art gave her a central role in the avant-garde movement that she embraced. Lisa N. Peters, Ph.D. #yvonnethomas #larrypoons #poons #art #modernart #glenngisslerdesign #ggdnyc #interiordesignalchemy #newyorkdesigner #artcollector #artadvisor #artconsultant #womenofabstractimpressionism #abstractexpressionism #abstractpainting #berrycampbell (at Tarrytown, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CE996xVFdkW/?igshid=14nrrmilhc8w8

YVONNE THOMAS “Untitled (March 1957)” 1957 oil on canvas 55 1/2 x 75 inches #yvonnethomas #1950s #womenartists #womenofabstractexpressionism #abstractexpressionism #theclub #ninthstreetwomen #1950s #nicefrance #nycart #asl #cooperunion #ozenfant #hofmann #subjectoftheartistsschool #artgallery #chelseagalleries #estaterepresentation #berrycampbell (at Berry Campbell) https://www.instagram.com/p/CCFSWJhlPPE/?igshid=iqvy8a4ujhob

SCHOOLED Yvonne Thomas was born in Nice, France, in 1913, and arrived with her family in the United States in 1925. After first settling in Boston, the family moved to New York, where Thomas studied briefly at Cooper Union. When her parents could not afford her tuition due to the Great Depression, she turned to commercial work, supporting herself as a fashion illustrator. In 1938, she chose to devote herself to art, enrolling at the Art Students League, where she studied with Vaclav Vytacil and took lessons in the figure and portraiture from the Russian painter Dmitri Romanovsky. She also attended the Ozenfant School of Fine Art, where the French Cubist emigrée Amadée Ozenfant introduced her to the modernist precepts to which she would be devoted throughout the rest of her career. In 1948, Patricia Matta, the wife of the artist Roberto Matta, provided Thomas with an introduction to the Subjects of the Artists School. Situated in a loft at 23 East 8th Street, the school consisted of participants who were considered “collaborators” rather than teacher-and-student. The artists in the school were leading figures in the American avant-garde, with whom Thomas interacted on an equal footing. They included William Baziotes, David Hare, Willem de Kooning, Arshile Gorky, Adolph Gottlieb, Hans Hoffman, Lee Krasner, Robert Motherwell, Barnett Newman, Jackson Pollock, Richard Pousette-Dart, Mark Rothko, and Clyfford Still. At the Subjects of the Artists School, Thomas felt she had “finally come home.” In 1950, Thomas studied with Hofmann at his school in Provincetown, Massachusetts. She credits him with giving her the “courage of color.” [Yvonne Thomas “Exploration” 1954 oil on canvas 40 x 50 1/2 inches] #yvonnethomas #thomas #womenofabstractexpressionism #abstraction #expressionism #asl #cooperunion #hofmann #subjectoftheartistsschool #ozenfantschool #theclub #exploration #courageofcolor #artgalleries #nycart #chelseagalleries #womenartists #modernart #contemporaryart #estaterepresentation #berrycampbell (at Berry Campbell) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_jFGBmlBL2/?igshid=1t9z2z5b0vbta

YVONNE THOMAS In a review in Art Digest (1954), Sam Feinstein noted that Thomas seemed “not at all concerned with the opposition of horizontals and verticals,” but instead created works consisting of “soft, curvilinear brushings harmonized into a pictorial lyricism.” In the following year, Thomas was one of eleven artists represented in a show at the Riverside Museum, New York, where her work was shown alongside that of Franz Kline, Milton Avery, Kenzo Okada, and Leon Polk Smith. [Yvonne Thomas “Untitled” 1956 oil on canvas 51 x 39 inches] #yvonnethomas #womenartists #womenofabstractexpressionism #abstractexpressionism #1950s #artdigest #artreview #oilpainting #samuelfeinstein #hendlergallery #riversidemuseum #abex #abstraction #nycart #chelseagalleries #estaterepresentation #5womenartists #berrycampbell (at Berry Campbell) https://www.instagram.com/p/B6ZhjGyluyc/?igshid=1uflj0o49i3zm

#Repost @william_corwin ・・・ It’s the last 3 days OF POSTWAR WOMEN. Sunday we will have a closing Prosecco toast 2-4pm! On view through December 1st. The gallery is open 9:00-4:30 Saturday’s, 9-3:30 Sundays, 9am-8:30pm weekdays (come before or after work!) 215 West 57th Street, between 7th and 8th avenues. Featured image: Yvonne Thomas, Nocturnal, 1955, oil on canvas #yvonnethomas #postwarwomen #theartstudentsleagueofnewyork #theartstudentsleague #19thamendment #knowyourforemothers #painting #sculpture #art @aslnyc @berrycampbell (at The Art Students League of New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/B5eeCYjFOhs/?igshid=1jbf9nkoxciyj