Thelma Appel

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 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...

St. Martins School of Art: London, England: Diploma of Art and Design-
Hornsey College of Art London, Art teacher’s Certification
Art Teaching Experience
Northern Westchester Center for the Arts: Golden’s Bridge, Mt. Kisco, NY
Bennington College Painters Workshop: Bennington, VT
Southern Vermont College: Bennington, VT
Parsons School of Design: New York, NY
Bennington College Winter Session: Bennington, VT
Belle Levine Arts Center: Putnam County, New York
Studio Classes: Hudson Valley, NY
Visiting Artist Experience
Wooster Museum College of Art, Wooster, MA
Boston Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA
Basking-Ridge Art Association, Basking Ridge, NJ
University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
Camp Eisner Retreat, Great Barrington, MA
West Hartford Art Association, Ct.

Solo Exhibitions
2021, “Thelma Appel: Times Square As You’ve Never Seen It” Chashama Foundation Exhibition Space, 320 West 23rd Street, New York
2019-2020 “Thelma Appel: Abstract/Observed”, a 50-year career survey, Brattleboro Museum, Brattleboro, Vermont, curated by Mara Williams
2018 "Thelma Appel: Landscapes, Cityscapes & Biblical Journeys", Edward & Bernice Wenger Center for the Arts, Greenvale, New York, curated by gallery director Susan Seelig
2014 “Thelma Appel: Landscapes and Cityscapes”, Chashama Foundation, 1166 6th Avenue, New York, NY
2013 Bruce Kirshner Gallery, Fairfield Public Library, Fairfield, CT
2013 Warner Atrium Gallery, Torrington, CT
1999 JCC of Greater New Haven, CT
1996 Metropolitan Arts and Antiques Center, New York, NY
1992 Westchester County Center Art Gallery, White Plains, NY
1984 Adele M. Fine Arts Gallery, Dallas TX
1982, 1980, 1977 Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY
1979, 1977 Thorne Sagendorf Art Center, Keene State University, NH
1977 Gallery II, Woodstock, VT
1975. 1974, 1972 Kornblee Gallery in New York, NY
1975 Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
1973 Robert Hull Fleming Museum, Burlington, VT 1971 Bennington College, Bennington, VT
Group Exhibitions
2021, “Pets of...