Thomas Stokes

Orange Edge

1968

Oil on canvas. Signed, titled, dated verso. 40 x 44 in. 41.5 x 45.5 in. (framed) Custom framed in a natural cherry floater. Provenance Knoedler Contemporary, New York Ludwig Sand...

Acrylic on canvas. Signed and dated lower right, titled verso. 69 x 68.25 in. 70.5 x 70 in. (framed) Custom framed in a solid maple floater. Provenance Private Collection, Hilton ...

Acrylic on canvas. Signed, dated, and titled verso. 52.25 x 52.75 in. 54 x 54.25 in. (framed) Custom framed in a maple hardwood floater. Provenance Salander O’Reilly Galleries, New York Private Collection, Connecticut Provenance Estate of Samuel Feinstein...

Oil on canvas. Signed lower right. 50.5 x 38.25 in. 51.5 x 39 in. (framed) Custom framed in maple. Theodore Franklin (“Ted”) Appleby, Jr. was born January 28, 1923 in Asbury Park, New Jersey to a very prominent family in Monmouth County. He attended the Pauling School in New York and studied at the atelier of John Corneal. On December 12, 1942, Appleby enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps, subsequently seeing action in the Marshall Islands. Upon the conclusion of the war, he was stationed for a year in Yokohama, Japan, where he studied local engraving techniques. In 1947, after returning home, Appleby moved to Mexico for a year to study mural painting in San Miguel de Allende. Following his sojourn in Mexico, Appleby briefly returned home to the U.S. before ultimately relocating to Paris. There, he joined a lively community of expatriate American artists involved with what would come to be known as the “School of Paris.” Appleby befriended fellow Americans Sam Francis and Jackson Pollock, exhibiting extensively throughout France with the former. He also regularly visited the atelier of Fernand Léger, and was represented in the "Salon de Réalités Nouvelles" and the “Salon d’Automne” during the 1950s and 60s. From 1955 to 1961, Appleby participated in group exhibitions in Chicago, Leverkusen (Germany), Lisbon, London, and Paris. He also had three notable solo exhibitions during this period: Studio Facchetti, Paris (1956); Martha Jackson Gallery, New York (1957); and the American Cultural Center, Paris (1959). In 1957, Appleby’s work was presented at the 62nd American Exposition of Painters and Sculptors at the Chicago Art Institute, where he was awarded the Norman Wait Harris Bronze Medal and Prize. Answering the famed artist André Lhote’s call to help save the village of Alba-la-Romaine in the Ardèche, Appleby and his wife - the artist Hope Manchester - purchased a home in the village in 1950, ultimately settling there until their deaths. Source: Taylor Graham Gallery

Oil-based mixed media on canvas. Signed verso. 47.25 x 56 in. 48.25 x 57.25 in. (framed) Custom framed in white oak. Provenance Allan Stone Gallery, New York John Beardman...

Oil on canvas. Signed lower right, signed, dated, and titled verso. 59 x 62.75 in. 60.75 x 64.5 in. (framed) Custom framed in a matte white hardwood floater, with gilded metallic front. Roger Mühl was born on December 20, 1929 in Strausbourg, France, where he attended the National School of Decorative Arts. He spent most of his life living and working in Provence, while regularly exhibiting in London, Paris, Geneva, Tokyo, and New York. Mühl is best known for his brightly colored, heavily textured landscape renderings of the south of France. His bucolic paintings...

Conceived of as one half of a diptych, together with Twelfth Night Red, the title of this painting suggest a reference to William Shakespeare’s play Twel...

Colorfield #410 is a wonderful example of American modernist Leonard Nelson's color field compositions and expression. The unframed, abstract oil on canvas measures 52" x 60" and is ...

1960 Oil on canvas 34 x 50 in. (86.4 x 127 cm) Signed and dated, verso

2021 Oil on canvas 36 x 36 in. (91.4 x 91.4 cm) Signed and dated, verso

2021 Oil on canvas 36 x 36 in. (91.4 x 91.4 cm) Signed and dated, verso

Uwe Kowski examines his interactions with his environment in paintings that turn imagery and symbols from everyday life into vibrant abstract compositions. Probing the medium’s poten...