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.to
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Artist: Thelma Appel
Nightfall, Acrylic & oil landscape painting, signed, framed, Museum provenance
By Thelma Appel
Located in New York, NY
Thelma Appel
Nightfall, 1973
Acrylic and Oil on Canvas. Hand Signed. Framed.
Hand signed and titled on the back
Unique
Frame included
Museum Provenance. This work was originally sold in 1973 by the prestigious Jill Kornblee Gallery to a corporate collection, and, in 2019, it was featured in the Thelma Appel 50 year career survey at the Brattleboro Museum in Vermont – so the provenance is superb.
Measurements:
Framed
38.5 x 89.5 inches
Artwork
36.5 x 87.5 inches
Thelma Appel Biography:
A co-founder of the Bennington College Summer Painting Workshop, Thelma Appel is a representational and abstract painter who has been practicing art for more than six and a half decades. In the 1980s, Thelma Appel was represented by the renowned Jill Kornblee Gallery and, after Ms. Kornblee retired, Appel joined the legendary Fischbach Gallery, (the gallery of record for Alex Katz for many decades,) also on West 57th Street, before they shuttered. After leaving Manhattan, she retreated from the art world for several decades; however, in recent years, her work is being rediscovered by a generation of new collectors. A beloved and popular teacher, at 87 years of age, Thelma could still be found teaching “The Art of Painting” at Artsplace in Cheshire, CT. and at the Osher Life Long Learning Institute (OLLI) At the University of Connecticut, near her home during the 2024-5 Fall/Winter Semester. 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, the Bennington Museum in Vermont and the Police Museum in Lower Manhattan. Thelma Appel was born in Tel Aviv, Israel, but following her parents’ divorce, her father remained in Israel, but her mother emigrated to London to pursue a career as a journalist. However, she soon became ill, and Thelma was sent alone to be educated in a Protestant missionary schools in Darjeeling, India, a geographical displacement that would impact her life and her work. Thelma returned to London, England, to study art at the legendary St. Martin's School of Art (later Central St. Martins) and Hornsey College of Art, under such renowned teachers as Joe Tilson and Eduardo Paolozzi, 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. (One of Thelma’s students was the renowned art dealer Matthew Marks.) 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. She was one of the winning artists of the juried exhibition “Pets of the Pandemic” juried by art historian and critic David Cohen, publisher and editor of artcritical, who cited it for special commendation as a “masterful portrait”. In recent years, Thelma’s work has been exhibited in both one-person and group shows at Alpha 137 Gallery in New York, Sager Reeves (now Sager Braudis) Gallery in Missouri, the Chashama Foundation in New York City, as well as the Five Points Gallery and Center for the Visual Arts in Torrington Connecticut, the David M. Hunt Gallery in Falls Village, CT and Wisdom House in Litchfield Ct...
Category
1970s Contemporary Thelma Appel Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Thelma Appel French Hill Spring terrific unique signed landscape painting Framed
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
This unique painting is signed, titled and dated on the bac...
Category
2010s Contemporary Thelma Appel Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
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 ...
Category
Early 2000s Realist Thelma Appel Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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
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...
Category
2010s Naturalistic Thelma Appel Art
Materials
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International Meeting Plaza, Signed/N 25-color silkscreen, beloved female artist
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 Authe...
Category
2010s Contemporary Thelma Appel Art
Materials
Pencil, Color, Screen
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Thelma Appel Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Thelma Appel Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Three handled Vase with Flowers, unique Signed still life oil painting, framed
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 Included - held in the artist's origi...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Thelma Appel Art
Materials
Oil
Times Square I exquisite unique acrylic and fabric collage signed painting Frame
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Thelma Appel Art
Materials
Fabric, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Sunset Island, gorgeous oil on canvas landscape painting, signed, double framed
By Thelma Appel
Located in New York, NY
Thelma Appel
Sunset Island, 2011
Oil on canvas painting
hand signed, titled and dated on the back of the canvas
Unique
This work was featured in the exhibition "Thelma Appel: Landsca...
Category
2010s Contemporary Thelma Appel Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Magician, homage to famed sculptor Isaac Witkin 18 Color silkscreen Signed/N
By Thelma Appel
Located in New York, NY
NOTE: Shown framed for inspiration only; this edition is unframed and in mint condition (never framed):
Thelma Appel
The Magician, 2018
18 Color Silkscreen on 320 gram Coventry Rag ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Thelma Appel Art
Materials
Pencil, Screen, Graphite
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...
Category
2010s Realist Thelma Appel Art
Materials
Pastel
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
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...
Category
2010s Realist Thelma Appel Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Waloomsac Wood II, Contemporary Screenprint by Thelma Appel
By Thelma Appel
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Thelma Appel, American (1940 - )
Title: Waloomsac Wood II
Year: 1980
Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 250, AP 25, HC 10
Image Size: 18 x 29.5 inche...
Category
1980s Contemporary Thelma Appel Art
Materials
Screen
New Seven North, Abstract Landscape Screenprint by Thelma Appel
By Thelma Appel
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Thelma Appel, American (1940 - )
Title: New Seven North
Year: 1980
Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 250, AP 25, HC 10
Image Size: 14 x 25 inches
Si...
Category
1980s Contemporary Thelma Appel Art
Materials
Screen
$480 Sale Price
20% Off
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
$19,500
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
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
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