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Charles Apt

Charles Apt (Born 1933) is active/lives in New York.  Charles Apt is known for Horse-racing genre, figure, landscape.

Born and raised in New York City, Charles Apt became a painter in contemporary realist style. He has also been an art educated with teaching positions at the National Academy of Design and The Art Students' League of New York.

His work includes still lifes, nudes, portraits, beach scenes, landscapes, interiors, musician figures and horses including a series of thoroughbred paintings exhibited at the Aqueduct Race Track. An exhibition at the National Museum of Racing in Saratoga resulted in "Best of Show" award for his painting "The Railbirds". He also did a portrait of Prince Rainier of Monaco.

Early in his career, Charles Apt was an illustrator and then spent two years traveling in Europe before returning to New York to continue painting. Later he held his first gallery showing in New York and then had a one-man-show at the Aqueduct Gallery. Later, Charles took his family to Europe for two summers in preparation for a "one-man-show" at the Grand Central Gallery in New Y   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 4577 characters.]  Artist bio

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Born and raised in New York City, Charles Apt became a painter in contemporary realist style. He has also been an art educated with teaching positions at the National Academy of Design and The Art Students' League of New York.

His work includes still lifes, nudes, portraits, beach scenes, landscapes, interiors, musician figures and horses including a series of thoroughbred paintings exhibited at the Aqueduct Race Track. An exhibition at the National Museum of Racing in Saratoga resulted in "Best of Show" award for his painting "The Railbirds". He also did a portrait of Prince Rainier of Monaco.

Early in his career, Charles Apt was an illustrator and then spent two years traveling in Europe before returning to New York to continue painting. Later he held his first gallery showing in New York and then had a one-man-show at the Aqueduct Gallery. Later, Charles took his family to Europe for two summers in preparation for a "one-man-show" at the Grand Central Gallery in New York City of the life and people of Portugal.

Apt received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Pratt Institute. Influential to his early artistic development were his grandfather Sam Lumiere, a well known portrait photographer, and his mother, Tami Apt, a fashion and jewelry designer.

Among his awards, are the Benjamin Altman Award from The National Academy of Design; Franklin B Williams Award and Ject-Key Prize from the Salmagundi Club; Bronze Medal from the American Watercolor Society; Sutherland prize from the National Arts Club; and Best of Show Award from the Saratoga Museum. He was elected Academician of the National Academy, and his work has appeared in numerous art books and publications such as "Arts Magazine" and "American Artist". He is profiled in "Who's Who in America", "Who's Who in the World" and "Who's Who in American Art". After many years in New York City he established a new studio in Los Angeles, where he now resides and works.

AWARDS, EXHIBITS AND PUBLICATIONS

American Veterans Society Artists Gold Medal 1965
American Artists Professional League 1st Prize 1965
Hudson Valley Artist Association Honorable Mention 1966
American Artists Professional League Talens Award 1966
Salmugundi Club New York Franklin B. Williams Award, 1966, 1968
Saratoga Museum of Racing Best Show Award 1967
National Academy of Design Benjamin Altman Award, Figure Painting 1968
Expn. Intercontinentale Monaco France Le Prix Prince Souverain, Monaco
Allied Artists of America Honorable Mention 1970
Salmugundi Club New York Salmugundi Club Prize, 1966, 68, 69, 71
American Watercolor Society Bronze Medal 1971
National Arts Club Sutherland Prize 1971
Salmugundi Club New York Ject-Key Prize 1971
Resource Council of America 1st Prize Product Design Award" 1984
National Academy of Design Walter Biggs Memorial Award 1989

EXHIBITIONS
Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield Massachusetts 1966
Expn. Intercontinentale Monaco France 1966,68
National Academy of Design 1965,68
National Academy of Design 1977-1989
National Academy of Design 1989-2004
American Watercolor Society 1965, 66, 68, 69
Allied Artists of America 1964, 65, 67, 69, 70, 72
Pastel Society of America 1965, 67, 68, 69, 70, 72
National Museum of Racing, Saratoga, New York 1967
Atlantic City Race Track 1967
National Arts Club 1967,71

ONE-MAN SHOWS
Ground Floor Art Gallery, New York 1967, 68, 69, 70
Aqueduct Race Track Art Gallery, New York 1967
Grand Central Art Galleries, New York 1969
Far Gallery, New York 1972,78
Talisman Gallery, Bartlesville Oklahoma 1976
Gallery 52, South Orange New Jersey 1976,77
Loring Gallery, Cedarhust New York 1985, 87, 92
Palm Beach Galleries, Palm Beach Florida 1973

ASSOCIATIONS
National Academy of Design ( Academician)
Artists Equity Association of New York

PUBLICATIONS
Charles Apt in Portugal" American Artist Magazine, 1970 April
Charles Apt Painter" ARTS Magazine, 1978 October
Merging Artistic Careers" House Beautiful, 1985 February
Whos Who in America
Whos Who in American Art
Whos Who in the World
Prize Winning Paintings, Vol. 6

CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
Chemical Bank
Bowery Bank
Celanese Corporation
Paine Webber Corporation
American Stock Exchange


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