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Born: Des Moines Iowa, April 17, 1916
Deceased: Houston, TX, June 29, 2012
Attended: Drake University and the University of Iowa


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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
Summit (NJ) Art Center
Beth Born Portrait Award – 1978
Best in Show – 1980
First Prize – 1982
Painters & Sculptors Society (NYC) – 1976-79
Bergen County (NJ) Artist Guild – 1980-83
Sheila Nusbaum Gallery, Millburn, NJ – 1980
Audubon Artists Annual Exhibit, NYC – 1982
Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Exhibit – 1983
Lever House, NYC – 1984
National Assoc. of Women Artists – 1987


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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.”

BJB

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
Mr. M. Coran, Bloomington, IN
Dr. Jose Alvarez, Palm Island, FL
Mr. and Mrs. J. Huwyler, NYC
Jose Marquez, Coral Gables, FL
Dr. Guido Melliger, NJ
Sylvia Fried, Delray Beach, FL
P. Tarakajian, Essex Fells, NJ
Linda Cooper, NYC
Dr. Stephan Parr, Miami, FL
Mr. and Mrs. Rene Perret, NYC


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Doris Van Akon, NY
Dr. Alice Ferris, NJ
Laura Diaz, Venezuela
Kris Stockberger, Houston, TX
Dr. A Giamara, Hilton Head, SC
Wanda Haenssler, NYC
Dr. A. Timms, Basle, Switzerland
Pierre Rhonheimer, United Nations
Fred Tosta, Coconut Grove, FL
Brian Gage, Hopewell, NJ
George Ewing, Glen Ridge, NJ

CONTACT
For more information, please contact us at: thummel@uh.edu or 713-204-3564
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