Biography

Born in 1954 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Anne Appleby studied at Philadelphia College of Art (1971); University of Montana, Missoula (B.F.A, 1977); and San Francisco Art Institute (M.F.A., 1989). Appleby is the recipient of two Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grants (1991 and 2006); a SECA Art Award from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1996); and a Biennial Award from The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation (1999). Her work has been included in numerous solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally and featured in the collections of notable museums, among them the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, University of California; Denver Art Museum; Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle; The Panza Collection, Lugano, Switzerland; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; San Jose Museum of Art; and Seattle Art Museum. Appleby lives and works in Jefferson City, Montana. (SJMA Collections Committee, 2012)

For at least the past five years, Appleby has worked on a long-term series of oil and wax paintings whose subject is the life cycle of trees, plants, flowers that exist in the landscapes of Montana and California, places where she divides her time. Appleby received an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1989 and has exhibitied continually in San Francisco at her primary gallery, Gallery Paule Anglim, in San Francisco and at the Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, and Littlejohn Contemporary in New York. Appleby has been in group exhibitions at SFMOMA, San Francisco, the San Jose Museum of Art, and the Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland in the recent Past. [Biography written by Lynne Baer, Art Appriaser, written in 1999 for SJMA.  Anne Appleby lives and works in Jefferson City, Montana.

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