Thelma Appel Art
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.(Biography provided by Alpha 137 Gallery)
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Artist: Thelma Appel
The Fool (from Journey of the Tarot Series), unique signed painting on canvas
By Thelma Appel
Located in New York, NY
Thelma Appel
The Fool, 2009
Acrylic on Canvas
Signed, titled and dated by Thelma Appel on the back
Frame included (held in the artist's original wood frame)
Measurements:
Frame:
50 ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Thelma Appel Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Permanent Marker
The Magician homage to revered sculptor 18 Color silkscreen Signed, official COA
By Thelma Appel
Located in New York, NY
Thelma Appel
The Magician, 2018
18 Color Silkscreen on 320 gram Coventry Rag paper with deckled edges; accompanied by artist signed COA
Signed twice: Pencil signed, titled and number...
Category
2010s Contemporary Thelma Appel Art
Materials
Pencil, Screen, Graphite
City of Dreams III, unique signed fabric collage and acrylic painting FRAMED
By Thelma Appel
Located in New York, NY
Thelma Appel
City of Dreams III, 2011
Fabric Collage and Acrylic Painting on Canvas
Signed, titled and dated on the back
Frame included
Signature: Signed, titled and dated on the ba...
Category
2010s Contemporary Thelma Appel Art
Materials
Fabric, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Gravity's Rainbow, unique signed painting on canvas by celebrated female artist
By Thelma Appel
Located in New York, NY
Thelma Appel
Gravity's Rainbow, 2010
Acrylic on Canvas
Hand Signed, Titled & Dated on the back of canvas
48 × 60 inches
Unframed
Thelma Appel was the subject of a 50 year career surv...
Category
2010s Contemporary Thelma Appel Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Times Square III, New Years, unique painting by renowned contemporary artist
By Thelma Appel
Located in New York, NY
Thelma Appel
Times Square III, New Years, 2014
Oil on canvas painting
Hand signed, titled and dated on the back
41 × 31 × 1 1/2 inches
Frame included
This unique signed painting was ...
Category
2010s Abstract Thelma Appel Art
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Times Square VIII gorgeous unique mixed media painting by renowned female artist
By Thelma Appel
Located in New York, NY
THELMA APPEL
Times Square VIII (Keep It Wild), 2016-2017
Acrylic and Collage on Canvas
Hand signed, titled and dated on the back
Framed
This is a unique painting
This work was exhib...
Category
2010s Contemporary Thelma Appel Art
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Laid Paper, Canvas
Prairie Flowers (unique signed acrylic landscape painting)
By Thelma Appel
Located in New York, NY
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Thelma Appel Art
Materials
Oil
Meeting Plaza, Signed/N 25-color silkscreen, Rockefeller Ctr NY & United Nations
By Thelma Appel
Located in New York, NY
Thelma Appel
Meeting Plaza, 2018
25 Color Silkscreen on 320 Gram Coventry paper with full margins and deckled edges.
Accompanied by ARTIST SIGNED, gallery issued Certificate of Authenticity (COA) - hand signed by BOTH the artist and gallery director
23.5" (vertical) x 29.25" (horizontal)
Hand signed, titled, annotated & dated on the lower right front - a rare Artists Proof, aside from the limited edition of 75
Unframed
This magnificent silkscreen, Meeting Plaza is signed, dated and numbered in graphite pencil on the front from the limited edition of 75. Other examples of this work were exhibited in the 2021 show "New York and No Place Else: Art that Celebrates New York" at the Chashama Foundation, New York, and it was also featured in the invitational exhibition "Women on Paper" in April, 2021 at the Sager Reeves Gallery in Columbia, Missouri. "Meeting Plaza" is a place where people from all over the world are always welcome to meet in peace and enjoyment; an exquisite 25-color limited edition silkscreen done in collaboration with master printer Gary Lichtenstein. The work is evocative of New York's Rockefeller Center and the United Nations, but the flags are abstracted, to emphasize international unity, rather than single out any individual country. The artist explained: "I wanted to convey a city that welcomed all nationalities and all people… The flags for me are a counterpoint to the city’s geometric architecture, and their suggested movement and irregular shapes echo the organic morphology of the people below. I painted an evening sky. It is dusk. Nobody is rushing. People are conversing with each other, walking slowly or gathering in small groups enjoying a calm evening in the New York City…I, too, am one of the people converging at the 'Meeting Plaza' ...”
Other examples of "Meeting Plaza" were exhibited in the 2021 show "New York and No Place Else: Art that Celebrates New York" at the Chashama Foundation, New York, and the print was featured in the invitational exhibition "Women on Paper" in April, 2021 at the Sager Reeves Gallery in Columbia, Missouri.
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...
Category
2010s Realist Thelma Appel Art
Materials
Color, Screen, Pencil
Times Square IX (Dallas BBQ)
By Thelma Appel
Located in New York, NY
Thelma Appel
Times Square IX (Dallas BBQ), 2016
Acrylic on Canvas
Signed, titled and dated on the back
Frame Included
Measurements:
Frame:
37 x 49 x 2 inches
Artwork:
36 x 48 inches
...
Category
2010s Contemporary Thelma Appel Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Justice
By Thelma Appel
Located in New York, NY
Thelma Appel
Justice, 2009
Oil on Canvas
Hand signed, titled and dated on the back of the canvas
Frame Included: held in the artist's original frame. Can be hung as is, or re-framed
...
Category
Early 2000s Realist Thelma Appel Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
New Megiddo
By Thelma Appel
Located in New York, NY
Thelma Appel
New Megiddo, 2014
Acrylic on canvas
Signed, titled and dated on the back of the canvas by Thelma Appel
Frame Included: held in original artist's frame
This work, called ...
Category
2010s Realist Thelma Appel Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Times Square V
By Thelma Appel
Located in New York, NY
Thelma Appel
Times Square V, 2015
Oil on canvas
Signed, dated and titled by the artist on the back
Frame Included: held in the original artist's frame
Measurements:
Frame:
60.5 x 48.5 x 2.5 inches
Artwork:
60 x 48 inches
Part of Thelma Appel's Times Square series of paintings which were exhibited at the Chashama Foundation in New York City in 2021, and in the invitational exhibition "New York and No Place Else: Art that Celebrates New York" at 320 West 23rd Street in Chelsea, Manhattan.
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. In 2019, 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 has also 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 in Bridgehampton and Art New York art fair, which selected Appel’s Times Square series of paintings for their invitational public Project Space sponsored by Absolut Vodka, and has been exhibited in both one-person and group shows at Alpha 137...
Category
2010s Realist Thelma Appel Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Three handled Vase with Flowers
By Thelma Appel
Located in New York, NY
Thelma Appel
Three handled Vase with Flowers, 2003
Original Oil on canvas painting
Hand signed, titled and dated by the artist on the back
Frame Inc...
Category
Early 2000s Realist Thelma Appel Art
Materials
Oil
In Memoriam (American Flag)
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
Absolutely stunning signed painting by beloved abstract and representational painter Thelma Appel. This 2002 work was done by the artist to honor those who lost their lives in the 9-11 terrorist attacks, as the artist's studio was in lower Manhattan at the time. A similar work done by Appel from this era was acquired by the Police Museum in lower Manhattan, near Ground Zero. This work is elegantly framed in a handmade brushed aluminum museum frame and is ready to hang. Signed, titled and dated verso. Ms. Appel has been the subject of a 50 year career survey at the Brattleboro Museum in Vermont.
Measurements:
Frame:
18.78 x 24.3 x 4 inches
Artwork:
18 x 24 inches
This work will be accompanied by a limited edition catalogue of the artist's museum retrospective, along with the original invitation and separate promotional materials.
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...
Category
Early 2000s Realist Thelma Appel Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Journey Through Hell
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 ...
Category
Early 2000s Realist Thelma Appel Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Croton Falls
By Thelma Appel
Located in New York, NY
Thelma Appel
Croton Falls, 1987
Acrylic on Paper on Board
Signed, titled and dated by the artist on the back
Frame Included
Thelma Appel is a renowned abstract and representational p...
Category
1980s Realist Thelma Appel Art
Materials
Acrylic, Board, Paper
Charlie Playing, Arie Singing
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...
Category
2010s Realist Thelma Appel Art
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Times Square XI (Recover Time)
By Thelma Appel
Located in New York, NY
Thelma Appel
Times Square XI (Recover Time), 2018
Acrylic and collage on Canvas
Hand signed, titled and dated by the artist on the back
Exhibited at the curated exhibition "New York ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Thelma Appel Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Magazine Paper, Laid Paper
Mount of Olives
By Thelma Appel
Located in New York, NY
Thelma Appel
Mount of Olives, 2010
Acrylic and Oil on Canvas
Hand signed and titled on verso
Artist's hand made frame included
This painting was exhibi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Thelma Appel Art
Materials
Oil, Acrylic, Mixed Media, Permanent Marker
Esther's Second Banquet (Haman's Treachery Revealed), Purim Collage #14
By Thelma Appel
Located in New York, NY
Thelma Appel
Esther's Second Banquet (Haman's Treachery Revealed), Purim Collage #14, ca. 2017
Hand made paper collage on paper
Hand signed on the front; also is accompanying by handwritten text by the artist and a typed narrative
14 × 17 inches
Unique
Unframed; This work is held in a matting which opens up
This handmade paper collage was exhibited in April, 2018 in the show "Thelma Appel: Landscapes, Cityscapes + Biblical Journeys Exhibition at the Edward & Bernice Wenger Center for the Arts in Greenvale, New York". Curated by art advisor and curator, Susan Seelig. It depicts the second banquet of the Jewish Queen Esther, married to the Persian King...
Category
2010s Contemporary Thelma Appel Art
Materials
Mixed Media, Handmade Paper, Magazine Paper
Sea Garden V
By Thelma Appel
Located in New York, NY
Thelma Appel
Sea Garden V, 2014
Acrylic on canvas painting
Signed, titled and dated verso of the canvas
This is a unique work of art
This work was featured ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Thelma Appel Art
Materials
Acrylic
Strang Lake
By Thelma Appel
Located in New York, NY
Thelma Appel Strang Lake, 2010
Oil on Canvas painting
Hand signed, dated and titled on the back
Held in original artist frame
30.5 inches (vertical) x 40.5 inches (horizontal) x 1.5 ...
Category
2010s Realist Thelma Appel Art
Materials
Oil
Times Square I
By Thelma Appel
Located in New York, NY
Thelma Appel
Times Square I, 2014
Acrylic and Fabric Collage Painting on Canvas
hand signed, titled and dated on the verso
Held in a hand made white wood frame
This work was featured in the solo exhibition, Thelma Appel: Times Square As You've Never Seen it, Chashama Foundation, 320 West 23rd Street, Chelsea, NY. This work was chosen for the invitation to the exhibition, and the collector who purchases the work will be given five copies of the invitate and promotional materials that accompanied the show. It was also featured in the popular exhibition "New York and No Place Else: Art that Celebrates New York City" at Alpha 137 Gallery...
Category
2010s Contemporary Thelma Appel Art
Materials
Fabric, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Sea Garden IV
By Thelma Appel
Located in New York, NY
Thelma Appel
Sea Garden IV, 2014
Acrylic on Canvas painting
Unique
Hand signed, titled and dated back of canvas
Framed
This work is accompanied by a limited...
Category
2010s Realist Thelma Appel Art
Materials
Acrylic
Llano Prairie, Oil Painting by Thelma Appel
By Thelma Appel
Located in Long Island City, NY
Oil painting by Thelma Appel circa 1975. A landscape of grass fields fill the canvas, gently swaying in the wind. Painted in bright, surreal multicolored tones of yellows, reds, and ...
Category
1970s Contemporary Thelma Appel Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
New Seven North, Abstract Landscape by Thelma Appel
By Thelma Appel
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Thelma Appel, American (1940 - )
Title: New Seven North
Year: 1980
Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 250, AP 25, HC 10
Image Size: 14 x 25 inches
Size...
Category
1980s Contemporary Thelma Appel Art
Materials
Screen
Harwood Hill, Abstract Silkscreen by Thelma Appel
By Thelma Appel
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Thelma Appel, American (1940 - )
Title: Harwood Hill
Year: 1981
Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 250, AP 25, HC 10
Image Size: 15.5 x 21.5 inches
Siz...
Category
1980s Contemporary Thelma Appel Art
Materials
Screen
Holiday Grove, Abstract Screenprint by Thelma Appel
By Thelma Appel
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Thelma Appel, American (1940 - )
Title: Holiday Grove
Year: 1980
Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 250, AP 25, HC 10
Image Size: 19 x 26 inches
Size: ...
Category
1980s Contemporary Thelma Appel Art
Materials
Screen
Waloomsac Wood II
By Thelma Appel
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Thelma Appel, American (1940 - )
Title: Waloomsac Wood II
Year: 1980
Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 250, AP 25, HC 10
Image Size: 18 x 29.5 inches
...
Category
1980s Contemporary Thelma Appel Art
Materials
Screen
Carpenter Woods, Abstract Screenprint by Thelma Appel
By Thelma Appel
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Thelma Appel, American (1940 - )
Title: Carpenter Woods
Year: 1982
Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 250, AP 25
Image Size: 22 x 15 inches
Size: 29 in...
Category
1980s Contemporary Thelma Appel Art
Materials
Screen
Wheat Field
By Thelma Appel
Located in Long Island City, NY
Oil painting by Thelma Appel from 1975. A landscape of grass fields fill the canvas, gently swaying in the wind. Painted in bright, surreal multicolored tones of yellows, reds, and blues. Signed and titled on verso, on shaped canvas.
Artist: Thelma Appel, American (1940 - )
Title: Wheat Field...
Category
1970s Abstract Thelma Appel Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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