Born: Des Moines Iowa, April 17, 1916
Deceased: Houston, TX, June 29, 2012
Attended: Drake University and the University of Iowa
One Woman Shows
Swiss Center Gallery, NYC . – 1975
National Art Gallery, NYC – 1979
Tosta Gallery, FL. – 1983
Corridor Gallery, Summit, NJ – 1981
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Group Shows (juried) Montclair (NJ) Public Library – 1976 |
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Commentaries
“In her unusual portraits, Rosa Thummel tests the limits of her medium, oil paint. She applies it thickly and achieves a very smooth finish. Her portraits are sensitive pieces, abstract expressionistic in style. Especially compelling are the eyes of her subjects, individually tempered to fit the personality – worried eyes, reflective ones, blank stares. The impact the eyes make on the viewer lend an aura of immutability to Thummel’s work. Her figures exude a feeling of displacement in the modern world – and at the same time they seem to have hope. Thummel has captivated some of the human essence in her paintings and shows us to ourselves.”
New York – Arts Journal
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“Rosa Thummel’s paintings display a genuine feeling for the sensuous qualities of paint. Loose yet forceful in shapes and sharply contrasting colors reveal an abstract expressionistic style. Linear structures appear in her work where she introduces an element of control within which the paint remains vital and fresh, the color opulent. Representational abstracts display strong modeling and assured draftsmanship in spite of expressionistic distortions.”
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The body of work produced by Rosa Thummel over her sixty years of active painting numbers close to 600 paintings, mostly oils and acrylics, on canvas and paper. The average size is about 30x40 inches and about half are framed. Approximately 150 works have been sold, and the remainder are part of her legacy. |
Private Collections: Mr. and Mrs. Neil Goldstein, NJ |
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Doris Van Akon, NY |
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For more information, please contact us at: thummel@uh.edu or 713-204-3564
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| Additional Paintings Catalog 1 | Additional Paintings Catalog 2 | Price List |