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Thelma Appel - Sea Garden V, 2014

Name: Thelma Appel - Sea Garden V, 2014
Brand: Thelma Appel
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This unique, hand signed acrylic on canvas painting was featured in the Fall, 2015 exhibition "Thelma Appel: Landscapes and Cityscapes", at the Chashama Foundation, 1155 6th Avenue, New York City.
It has been elegantly double framed in a hand made white wood frame.
Measurements:
Framed
28 inches (vertical) by 40 inches (horizontal) by 2.5 inches
Artwork:
24 inches (vertical) by 36 inches (horizontal)

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.

Other examples of the silkscreen "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" and reproduced in the accompanying catalogue.
In 2025-6, Thelma Appel's work was featured the exhibition "Zodiac" at the Medici Museum in Warren, Ohio.

Signed, titled and dated verso of the canvas

Exhibition History: This work was featured in the Fall, 2015 exhibition "Thelma Appel: Landscapes and Cityscapes", at the Chashama Foundation, 1155 6th Avenue, New York City.