Thelma Appel
Prairie Flowers (unique signed acrylic landscape painting)
2014

Name: Prairie Flowers (unique signed acrylic landscape painting)
Brand: Thelma Appel
Price: 6750 USD
Availability: InStock

About the Item

THELMA APPEL Prairie Flowers, 2014 Oil on Canvas painting Signed, titled & dated by the artist on the back of the canvas Framed: held in the artist's handmade frame This unique hand signed painting by renowned landscape, representational and abstract artist Thelma Appel was exhibited at Sager Braudis Gallery in the exhibition "Parallel Visions: Mary Abbott and Thelma Appel" in February, 2020. The collector who acquires this beautiful work will also receive a copy of the illustrated exhibition Catalogue. (see attached photos of the cover which features a close up of the work and the relevant page inside page.) This work was also featured in the Fall, 2015 exhibition "Thelma Appel: Landscapes and Cityscapes", at the Chashama Foundation, 1155 6th Avenue, New York City. This work is accompanied by a limited edition catalogue of the artist's 50 year museum retrospective, as well as biographical and promotional materials. More about Thelma Appel: Thelma Appel biography A co-founder of the Bennington College Summer Painting Workshop, Thelma Appel is a representational and abstract painter who has been working and teaching for more than six decades. Most recently, she was subject of a 50-year career survey (October, 2019 -February 2020) at the Brattleboro Museum in Vermont, entitled Thelma Appel: Abstract/Observed curated by Mara Williams, and she exhibited at the Mattatuck Museum in Connecticut which acquired one of her fabric collages for their permanent collection. Thelma Appel was raised in Darjeeling, India and educated in London, England, at St. Martin's School of Art (now Central St. Martins) and Hornsey College of Art before emigrating to the United States in the 1960s. Her work has been exhibited in numerous venues, including the Bennington Museum, the Berkshire Museum in North Adams, Mass., the Children's Museum of the Arts in New York City, the Mattatuck Museum, the Brattleboro Museum, the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Robert Hull Fleming Museum at the University of Vermont and the University of Pennsylvania Fine Arts Gallery. In 1974 she was awarded a YADDO Fellowship, and in 1975, Thelma Appel, along with the painter Carol Haerer, co-founded the Bennington College Summer Painting Workshop, where many distinguished painters of the day, both abstract and representational, conducted master classes. Among them were Neil Welliver, John Button, Alice Neel, Larry Poons, Friedel Dzubas, Stanley Boxer, Elizabeth Murray and Doug Ohlson – a program that continued until 1980. She has also taught drawing at Parsons School of Design, painting at Southern Vermont College and at the University of Connecticut. Appel’s work has been presented at Art on Paper, Texas Contemporary, Market Art & Design and Art New York art fairs and has been exhibited at Alpha 137 Gallery in New York, Sager Reeves Gallery in Missouri and the Chashama Foundation in New York City.

Creator:

Thelma Appel (1940, American)

Creation Year:

2014

Dimensions:

Height: 26 in (66.04 cm)Width: 40 in (101.6 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)

Medium:

Oil

Movement & Style:

Contemporary

Period:

2010-

Condition:

held in artist's original vintage wood frame; from the artist's studio which the collector can have re-framed in a white wood, dark wood or even gilt frame which would look terrific.

Gallery Location:

New York, NY

Reference Number:

1stDibs: LU1745213331032

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Thelma Appel

A co-founder of the Bennington College Summer Painting Workshop, Thelma Appel is a representational and abstract painter who has been working and teaching for more than six decades. Most recently, she was subject of a 50-year career survey (October, 2019 -February 2020) at the Brattleboro Museum in Vermont, entitled Thelma Appel: Abstract/Observed curated by Mara Williams. She was born in Tel Aviv, Israel, raised in Darjeeling, India and educated in London, England, at St. Martin's School of Art (now Central St. Martins) and Hornsey College of Art before emigrating to the United States in the 1960s. Her work has been exhibited in numerous venues, including the Bennington Museum, the Berkshire Museum in North Adams, Mass., the Children's Museum of the Arts in New York City, the Mattatuck Museum, the Brattleboro Museum, the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Robert Hull Fleming Museum at the University of Vermont and the University of Pennsylvania Fine Arts Gallery. In 1974 she was awarded a YADDO Fellowship, and in 1975, Thelma Appel, along with the painter Carol Haerer, co-founded the Bennington College Summer Painting Workshop, where many distinguished painters of the day, both abstract and representational, conducted master classes. Among them were Neil Welliver, John Button, Alice Neel, Larry Poons, Friedel Dzubas, Stanley Boxer, Elizabeth Murray and Doug Ohlson – a program that continued until 1980. She has also taught drawing at Parsons School of Design, painting at Southern Vermont College and at the University of Connecticut. Appel’s work has been presented at Art on Paper, Texas Contemporary Art Fair , Market Art & Design in the Hamptons, Art Expo, and Art New York art fairs. Appel’s Times Square series of paintings was awarded a solo exhibition by the Chashama Foundation in their Chelsea exhibition space, and selected by the curator of the Port Authority exhibition program in Manhattan, and her work has been exhibited at the Sager Braudis Gallery (now Sager Reeves), Alpha 137 Gallery, the Fourt Points Gallery in Connecticut and other galleries nationwide.