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Thelma Appel Figurative Paintings

American, b. 1940
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.
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Artist: Thelma Appel
In Memoriam (American Flag), unique signed acrylic painting on canvas, Framed
By Thelma Appel
Located in New York, NY
Thelma Appel In Memoriam, 2002 Acrylic on Canvas painting Hand signed, dated and titled in black marker on the back This is a unique work Frame Included: elegantly framed in a hand m...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Thelma Appel Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Red Hill, gorgeous acrylic on canvas landscape painting, unique, signed, framed
By Thelma Appel
Located in New York, NY
Gorgeous painting by beloved represtational painter Thelma Appel Thelma Appel Red Hill, 2001 Acrylic painting on canvas Hand signed, dated and titled verso Measurements: Framed 28 i...
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2010s Naturalistic Thelma Appel Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic

Santorini IV, gorgeous unique signed oil on canvas painting of Greek isle Greece
By Thelma Appel
Located in New York, NY
Thelma Appel Santorini IV, 2019 Oil on canvas painting Hand signed, titled and dated verso 28 × 22 × 1 1/2 inches Unique Frame included: elegantly framed in a hand made white wood f...
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2010s Contemporary Thelma Appel Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Journey Through Hell, 9/11 Art, Signed painting, exhibited at Brattleboro Museum
By Thelma Appel
Located in New York, NY
Thelma Appel Journey Through Hell, 2001 Oil on Canvas Hand signed and dated by artist on the back of the canvas Frame Included: hand made metal museum frame This powerful, haunting ...
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Early 2000s Realist Thelma Appel Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Thelma Appel Rescued Doll with Flower Vase, unique pastel on paper signed twice
By Thelma Appel
Located in New York, NY
Thelma Appel Rescued Doll, with Flower Vase, 2016 Pastel on paper drawing Signed on the back of the artwork; also signed and titled by artist on the back of the accompanying board; u...
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2010s Realist Thelma Appel Figurative Paintings

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Pastel

Charlie Playing, Arie Singing, signed canvas painting, won juried art contest
By Thelma Appel
Located in New York, NY
Thelma Appel Charlie Playing, Arie Singing, 2020 Acrylic on canvas. Hand signed by the artist on the front; signed, titled and dated by the artist on the back 20 × 16 × 1/2 inches F...
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2010s Realist Thelma Appel Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

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