Theodore Appleby
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Theodore Appleby

United States • 1923 - 1985

Biography

In 1949 he moved to Paris where he regularly visited the studio of Fernand Léger. He was then one of the American artists who became part of Parisian artistic life and exhibited at the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles (1950, 1952, 1959, 1961) and at the Salon d'Automne (1953, 1954).

Friend of Jackson Pollock, he participated, with Sam Francis also born in 1923, in collective exhibitions in Rouen, Rennes, Nantes, Nancy, Saint-Étienne, Tours, and in Paris at Studio Paul Facchetti.

In January 1957, he received a prize at the 62nd American Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture at the Art Institute of Chicago.

He died in 1985 in Lyon

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