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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.
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Artist: Thelma Appel
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...
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2010s Contemporary Thelma Appel Art

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Mixed Media, Handmade Paper, Magazine Paper

Thelma Appel French Hill Spring
By Thelma Appel
Located in New York, NY
Thelma Appel French Hill Spring, 2010 Acrylic and Oil on Canvas painting Hand signed and titled on the back Frame included Measurements: 35" x 51" x .5" This painting is inspired by French Hill, in Yorktown Heights, Westchester County, New York where the artist once lived. The place has great history as it is the location where the French Army encamped, not far from the Hudson River, while assisting the Americans during the American Revolution in the late 1700s. This painting was exhibited in the Fall of 2018 at the show, "Thelma Appel: Landscapes, Cityscapes & Biblical Journeys", Edward & Bernice Wenger Center for the Arts, Greenvale, New York, curated by art advisor and director Susan Seelig. 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...
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2010s Realist Thelma Appel Art

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Oil, Acrylic, Canvas

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 This painting was exhibited in the Fall of 2018 at the ...
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2010s Contemporary Thelma Appel Art

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Oil, 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 limi...
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2010s Realist Thelma Appel Art

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Acrylic

Santorini III
By Thelma Appel
Located in New York, NY
Thelma Appel Santorini III, 2019 Oil on canvas Hand signed and dated verso 28" x 22" x 1.5" Frame included Stunning original hand signed and dated painting inspired by the beautiful ...
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2010s Realist Thelma Appel Art

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Oil

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 ...
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2010s Realist Thelma Appel Art

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Oil

Times Square III, New Years
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 ...
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2010s Abstract Thelma Appel Art

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Acrylic, Oil

Untitled landscape close up
By Thelma Appel
Located in New York, NY
Thelma Appel Untitled Landscape close up, 1989 Pastel painting on paper Hand signed and dated on the front Framed Measurements: Framed 24 inches high x 29 inches wide by 1 inch (dept...
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2010s Realist Thelma Appel Art

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Pastel

Prairie Flowers
By Thelma Appel
Located in New York, NY
THELMA APPEL Prairie Flowers, 2014 Oil on Canvas painting Signed, titled & dated on the back of the canvas Framed This unique hand signed painting was exhibited at Sager Braudis Gal...
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2010s Realist Thelma Appel Art

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Oil

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 featur...
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2010s Contemporary Thelma Appel Art

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Acrylic

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...
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2010s Contemporary Thelma Appel Art

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Fabric, Mixed Media, Acrylic

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 ...
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1980s Contemporary Thelma Appel Art

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Screen

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 ...
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1970s Contemporary Thelma Appel Art

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Canvas, Oil

Times Square VIII (Keep It Wild)
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 work was exhibited in the show: "Thelma ...
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2010s Realist Thelma Appel Art

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Mixed Media, Acrylic, Laid Paper

Harwood Hill, 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...
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1980s Contemporary Thelma Appel Art

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Screen

Carpenter Woods
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...
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1980s Contemporary Thelma Appel Art

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Screen

Holiday Grove
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: ...
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1980s Contemporary Thelma Appel Art

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Screen

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...
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1980s Contemporary Thelma Appel Art

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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...
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1970s Abstract Thelma Appel Art

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Canvas, Oil

Rockface Blue Mountain
By Thelma Appel
Located in New York, NY
Thelma Appel Rockface Blue Mountain, 2014 Oil on canvas painting Hand signed, titled and dated on the back 26" x 40" x 1" Frame included This is a stunning original oil on canvas by Thelma Appel - a beloved abstract and representational painter who has been working and teaching for more than five decades. Exhibited at solo show: Thelma Appel: Landscapes and Cityscapes, Chashama Foundation in Manhattan, Avenue of the Americas, 2015 Hand signed, titled and dated on the back of the frame This work is also accompanied by a limited edition catalogue of the artist's 50 year museum retrospective, and biographical postcards of her work. 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...
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2010s Abstract Thelma Appel Art

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Oil

Meeting Plaza
By Thelma Appel
Located in New York, NY
Winning buyer: Use code FREESHIP for complimentary packing and shipping (some exclusions apply) Thelma Appel Meeting Plaza, 2018 25 Color Silkscreen on 320 Gram Coventry paper with full margins and deckled edges. Accompanied by ARTIST SIGNED Certificate of Authenticity (COA) 23.5" (vertical) x 29.25" (horizontal) Edition of 75 Hand signed, titled, numbered & dated on the lower right recto (front). Unframed "One can’t paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt." –Georgia O’Keeffe 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...
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2010s Contemporary Thelma Appel Art

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Color, Screen

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