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Thelma AppelCity of Dreams III, unique signed fabric collage and acrylic painting FRAMED2011
2011
About the Item
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 back of the canvas
Exhibition History: Parallel Visions: Mary Abbott and Thelma Appel, Sager Braudis Gallery, Spring 2020
Framed under acrylic in a white wood frame
Measurements:
Framed:
25.5 inches (vertical) x 32 inches (horizontal) x 2.5 inches (depth)
Artwork
23.5 inches x 29.75 inches
Note: This work will be accompanied by a limited edition exhibition catalogue of the artist's career survey at the Brattleboro Museum in Vermont, along with a catalogue from the Thelma Appel exhibition at the Sager Braudis Gallery.
This hand applied painting and fabric collage, which, as the artist explained in a recent interview, took many months of paintstaking labor to complete - "City of Dreams III" is the part of Thelma Appel's poignant, majestic and semi-autobiographical "Dream Cities" series. When this work was first exhibited in 2013, Appel said, " For my “Dream Cities” series, instead of paint-laden brushes, I cut-up hundreds of pieces of fabric and glued them to canvas or board in a painterly overlapping way. I used architectural motifs interspersed with landscape elements to articulate space and achieve pictorial coherence. From my imaginary “Dream Cities” - I could never be evicted or exiled! These collages were painstaking to assemble and organize, but the arduous process itself was a metaphor for the journey one must undergo to arrive at these idyllic and mystical destinations. And another fabric collage, created using the same technique, was acquired by The Mattatuck Museum in Waterbury shortly afterwards.."
Thelma Appel, who was born in Tel Aviv Israel, raised in Darjeeling India and educated at St. Martin's School of Art in London England before emigrating to the US, is a respected landscape painter who has been working and teaching for more than five decades. Now over 80 years old, her work is being re-discovered by a new generation of collectors and curators. Most recently, she was selected for a solo exhibition called "Landscapes and Cityscapes" at the Chashama Foundation in Manhattan. Appel's poignant painting about ("Exodus by Moonlight") was also featured in the exhibition “Road Trip: America through the Windshield”, at the Brattleboro Museum in Vermont and in 2019 she was honored with a 50 year career retrospective at the Brattleboro Museum. Her work has also been exhibited several times at the Mattatuck Museum in Connecticut. Her work has been exhibited at the Bennington Museum, the Children's Museum of the Arts in New York City, and on the A & E Television Series "The Way Home." Thelma Appel was raised in Darjeeling India, and then London where she studied art at Central St. Martin’s School of Art & Hornsey College of Art in London before emigrating to the United States, where she settled in Vermont, teaching at Bennington College and Parsons School of Design and exhibiting in museums and galleries throughout the region. Appel became known primarily for her paint-soaked brush strokes on large canvases that sought to recreate the energy, color and immediacy of the landscapes. Like many artists of the era, she was inspired by the Abstract Expressionists, including Helen Frankenthaler and Robert Motherwell whom she met at Bennington College. However, Appel wanted to express her feelings about Nature in a less amorphous and more recognizable way. In a recent documentary interview, Appel explained why she considers herself a Romantic landscape painter: "Not recording mimetically what lay before me, but trying to express the excitement I felt in response to nature by using paint-soaked brush strokes on a large canvas wherein the over-lapping layered strokes of color were metaphors for the contiguities found in nature. My early paintings sought to recreate the energy, color and immediacy of the landscapes... to convey a more raw "painterly" feeling within the image, rather than recording a particular scene or looking on from a distance. " During her time in Vermont, Appel's work was exhibited at The Robert Hull Fleming Museum at the University of Vermont, The Berkshire Museum in North Adams, MA, the University of Pennsylvania Fine Arts Gallery and in solo shows at Bennington College. In 1974 she was awarded a YADDO Fellowship, and in 1975 she founded the Bennington College Summer Painting Workshop, where many distinguished painters of the day, both abstract and representational, were invited to conduct 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. (One of Appel's students during that era, was the renowned gallerist Matthew Marks.) Soon afterward, Appel began showing with the Kornblee Gallery, and later at Fischbach Gallery -- at the time the gallery of record for many renowned artists including Alex Katz. Appel also taught drawing at Parsons in NYC, and painting at Southern Vermont College.
This work is part of Appel's "Dream Cities" series.
In excellent condition.
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:2011
- Dimensions:Height: 25.5 in (64.77 cm)Width: 32 in (81.28 cm)Depth: 2.5 in (6.35 cm)
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- Condition:Very good original studio condition in artist's frame.
- Gallery Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1745214235402
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