Frank W. Applebee
{{Short description|American painter}}
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| birth_date = 1902
| birth_place = Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
| death_date = 1988
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| alma mater = Massachusetts College of Art and Design
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Frank W. Applebee (1902–1988) was an American painter and educator. He was a co-founder of the Dixie Art Colony and the head of the art department at Auburn University.
Early life
Frank Woodberry Applebee was born in Boston, Massachusetts.{{cite web|title=The Art of Frank Applebee|url=http://jcsm.auburn.edu/exhibitions/the-art-of-frank-applebee/|website=Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art|publisher=Auburn University|accessdate=November 28, 2016}}{{cite web|title=Frank Woodberry Applebee: 1902 -1988|url=http://dixieartcolony.org/?page_id=1378|website=Dixie Art Colony Foundation|accessdate=November 29, 2016}} He studied art at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design.
Career
Applebee was a co-founder of the Dixie Art Colony in Alabama in 1933.{{cite book|last1=Davis|first1=Anita Price|last2=Emerson|first2=Jimmy|title=New Deal Art in Alabama: The Murals, Sculptures and Other Works, and Their Creators|date=2015|publisher=McFarland & Company|location=Jefferson, North Carolina|isbn=9780786498291|oclc=900306745|page=143|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SvVTCgAAQBAJ&q=Frank+W.+Applebee+museum&pg=PA143}} By 1937, he was an instructor at the colony.{{cite book|editor1-last=Olson |editor1-first=Ted|title=CrossRoads: A Southern Culture Annual|date=2004|publisher=Mercer University Press|location=Macon, Georgia|isbn=9780865548664|oclc=55000679|page=110|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=31hZQKGNscoC&q=Frank+W.+Applebee+auburn&pg=PA110}}
Applebee was subsequently the head of the art department at Alabama Polytechnic Institute, later known as Auburn University. He helped pick the permanent collection of the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art. He became professor emeritus in 1969.
Applebee was a regionalist painter. He was elected as one of five vice presidents of the Alabama Art League in 1947.{{cite news|title=Mrs. Steagall Elected Art League President|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/115193929/?terms=%22Frank%2BApplebee%22|accessdate=November 29, 2016|work=The Anniston Star|date=June 15, 1947|page=6|location=Anniston, Alabama|via=Newspapers.com|url-access=registration }} Two years later, in 1949, he won a prize from the league at the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts.
Death
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Category:Massachusetts College of Art and Design alumni
Category:Auburn University faculty
Category:20th-century American painters
Category:20th-century American academics
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