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Biography of Theodore Appleby
The american artist painter and etcher Theodore Appleby was born at Long Beach in the New Jersey in 1923. In the United States he will be the student of the artist John Corneal. In december 1942, he joins the U.S. Navy and takes part of many operations in Oceania; in 1945 and 1946 stationing at Yokohama (Japan), he takes the opportunity to practise the japanese etching. After the end of the war, the young artist will study the mural at the university San Miguel de Allende in Mexico, in 1948 and 1949. In 1949 he moves to Paris. Friend with Jackson Pollock and Sam Francis, Ted Appleby will exhibit in France with Sam, at the Fine Art Museum in Tours, Rouen, Nantes, at the Modern Art Museum in Paris and at the Gallery Facchetti (Paris). Like his wife, the artist Hope Manchester, he will work at Fernand Leger Academmy between 1949 and 1951. He will exhibit regularly at the « Salon des Réalités Nouvelles » between 1950 and 1961. In 1950, reading an article published in the art magazines of the artist André Lothe he is impressed with the beauty of Alba La Romaine, a wonderful village in Ardèche, - south of France. Theodore Appleby and his wife decide to move there and they buy a house. Over a very short period of time, more than thirty artists from every where and from all nationalities do the same (Jean Bertholle, Elisabeth Guggenheim, Hayter, Jean Le Moal, etc) and the village is being reborn and making a real turn towards art. The artist shows his artworks in solo and in group exhibitions: in Paris, and in Germany for « Peintres Américains Abstraits » (Abstract American Painters), a travelling exhibit in 1956, at Martha Jackson Gallery in New York, at Chicago Art Institute - where he wins the award Normand Wait Harrys -. Then he will show his art works at the exhibition « Post Picasso Paris » displayed by the Hanover Gallery in London in 1957, at « 20 Peintres Américains » (20 American Painters) in Paris in 1959, and at « Expressions Aujourd’hui » in the Castle of Luneville in 1960.
Ted’s painting is abstract and it’s characterized by a high degree of creative spontaneity which is similar to Jackson Pollock’s approach. Ted Appleby passes away at Lyon, in 1985, almost ten years after his wife.