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theophil groell

 

Demeter Diptych
(L) Rhea Summons Demeter, (R) Persephone Departs,
1989, oil on linen, 38 x 28 inches each.


Born: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, February 11, 1932; Died: Bangor, Maine, March 4, 2004
Education: Carnegie Institute of Technology - BFA 1953
Gallery Affiliations: Turtle Gallery, Deer Isle, Maine

Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2004
2001, 2002, 2004
2002
1999
1993
1986, 1988
1980, 1983
1970, 1973, 1974, 1977
1977
1956

Melina Mercouri Municipal Art Gallery, Hydra, Greece
John Edwards Wine Cellar Art Gallery, Ellsworth, Maine
Turtle Gallery, Deer Isle, Maine
The Clown Art Gallery, Portland, Maine
Frost Gully Gallery, Portland, Maine
Congress Square Gallery, Portland, Maine
Tatistcheff and Company, Inc., New York City
Green Mountain Gallery, New York City
Tomasulo Gallery, Union College, New Jersey
Tanager Gallery (as Theophil Repke), New York City


Selected Group Exhibitions:
1995
1990
1987, 1988

1985

1981

1979
1976
1976



1975



1974



1973

1972
1971
1959
1954

MAINE PAINTERS - McGrath Dunham Gallery, Castine, Maine
American Academy of Arts & Letters - Invitational Exhibition, New York City
REALISM TODAY - American Drawings from the Rita Rich Collection,
      National Academy of Design, New York City
AMERICAN REALISM - 20th Century Drawings and Watercolors, Glenn C. Janss Collection,
     San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, National Tour
CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN REALISM SINCE 1960,
     The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, World Tour
THE OPPOSITE SEX - A Realistic Viewpoint, University of Missouri, Kansas City
Annual Exhibition, Randolph Macon College for Women, Lynchburg, Virginia
FIGURE AS FORM: AMERICAN PAINTING 1930 - 1976, St. Petersburg, Florida
Fortieth Annual Midyear Show, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
PERSONAL THINGS, Hopper House, Nyack, New York
ARTIST'S CHOICE, Figurative Art in New York, New York City
DODD - GROELL - GELBER, Rice University, Houston
THREE CENTURIES OF THE AMERICAN NUDE, New York Cultural Center, New York City
REPORT FROM SOHO, New York University, Grey Gallery, New York City
THE CLASSIC REVIVAL, Illinois Bell, Chicago, Illinois
SOHO AND SO, Lehigh University
THE FIGURE IN RECENT AMERICAN PAINTING, Pennsylvania Council On the Arts
NEW IMAGES - FIGURATION IN AMERICAN PAINTING,
     Queens Museum, New York and Squibb Gallery, New Jersey
A SENSE OF PLACE, University of Nebraska
American Academy of Arts & Letters (also 1974)
PAINTERS OF THE LAND AND SKY, Colgate University
CONTEMPORARY FIGURE - A NEW REALISM, Suffolk Museum, Stony Brook, New York
ART USA-59, New York Coliseum (Theophil Repke)
EMERGING TALENT, Kootz Gallery, New York (Theophil Repke)


Selected Public Collections: Randolph Macon College for Women, Lynchburg, Virginia
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Publications:
1993
1987
1985
1981
A Guide to Drawing, Fifth Edition, Mendelowitz and Wakeham (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich)
Realism Today - American Drawings from the Rita Rich Collection (National Academy of Design)
American Realism - 20th Century Drawings and Watercolors (Harry Abrams & Co.)
Contemporary American Realism Since 1960, New York Graphic Society, Boston

Major Private Collections:
L. L. Bean
O. P. Jackson, Jr.
Philip Lowe
Peat, Marwick
Simpson & Thatcher
Robert Blute
Glenn C. Janss
MBNA America
Edmund Pillsbury
Stevens Inc
Boise Cascade
Ben Johnson
Metropolitan Life
Rita Rich
Rosemary Whitney
Margot Gordon
Sydney Lewis
Dr. William O'Brien
Steven Robinson








 

Rose Tiara, 1974, oil on linen, 48 x 48 inches.

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