| Frank Woodberry Applebee | |
| Birth Date: | 1902 |
| Birth Place: | Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Death Date: | 1988 |
| Alma Mater: | Massachusetts College of Art and Design |
| Occupation: | Painter, educator |
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.
Frank Woodberry Applebee was born in Boston, Massachusetts.[1] [2] He studied art at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design.[2]
Applebee was a co-founder of the Dixie Art Colony in Alabama in 1933.[3] By 1937, he was an instructor at the colony.[4]
Applebee was subsequently the head of the art department at Alabama Polytechnic Institute, later known as Auburn University.[1] He helped pick the permanent collection of the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art.[1] He became professor emeritus in 1969.[2]
Applebee was a regionalist painter.[2] He was elected as one of five vice presidents of the Alabama Art League in 1947.[5] Two years later, in 1949, he won a prize from the league at the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts.[2]
Applebee died in 1988.[2]