About Frank W. Applebee
Lived 1902 – 1988 (aged 85–86). Frank W. Applebee was an American painter.
Frank Woodberry 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. He studied art at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. By 1937, he was an instructor at the colony.
Applebee was subsequently the head of the art department at Alabama Polytechnic Institute, later known as Auburn University. Two years later, in 1949, he won a prize from the league at the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts.
Death Applebee died in 1988.
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Who was Frank W. Applebee?
American painter and educator
When was Frank W. Applebee born?
Frank W. Applebee was born in 1902 in Boston.
When did Frank W. Applebee die?
Frank W. Applebee died in 1988.
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Frank W. Applebee was a painter.
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Frank W. Applebee was American.
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