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2001
1986
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M.A.A., Wesleyan University
M.F.A., Syracuse University
B.F.A., Moore College of Art
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2016 |
Tula Telfair: Invented Landscapes,
Forum Gallery, New York, NY
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2015 |
New Landscape Paintings by Tula Telfair
Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV
Louisiana Art and Science Museum, Baton Rouge, LA
The Goals Come Ever More Clearly Into View, Forum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
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2014 |
A World of Dreams: New Landscape Paintings by Tula Telfair
Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan, University, Middletown, CT
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2012 |
Out of Sight: Imaginary Landscapes by Tula Telfair, Forum Gallery, New York, NY
Tula Telfair: Imagination and Tradition, Conde Nast Building, New York, NY
Tula Telfair: New Paintings, The Durst Corporation, New York, NY
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2011 |
Paintings by Tula Telfair, Heather Gaudio Fine Art, New Canaan, CT
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2010 |
Tula Telfair: Landscapes in Counterpoint, The Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, CT
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2008 |
Located at the Edge of a Momentary Convergence: New Landscape Paintings, Forum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
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2006 |
Paintings, Forum Gallery, New York, NY
Selected Works, Forum Gallery, New York, NY
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2005 |
Tula Telfair: New Paintings, Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
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2004 |
New Work, Forum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
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2002 |
Landscapes by Tula Telfair, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA
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2001 |
Tula Telfair: Paintings, Marquard Bank, Hamburg, Germany
Tula Telfair: New Paintings, DFN Gallery, New York, NY
Tula Telfair: New Paintings, Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
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1999 |
Tula Telfair: New Work, DFN Gallery, New York, NY
Tula Telfair Arsenal, New York, NY
New Paintings, Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Tula Telfair New York Life Building, New York, NY
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1998 |
Constructed Landscapes: Series III, Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Constructed Landscapes: Series IV, DFN Gallery, New York, NY
Tula Telfair, Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
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1996 |
Landscapes Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
New Work Tremaine Gallery, The Hotchkiss School, CT
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1995 |
Rosenberg Gallery, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD
Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
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1994 |
Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL
Xerox Building, Chicago, IL
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1993 |
Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
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1992 |
Kirkland Fine Art Gallery, Millikin University, Decatur, IL
Sampson Art Gallery, Thiel College, Greenville, PA
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1991 |
Five Points Gallery, East Chatham, NY
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1990 |
Blue Hill Gallery, Hudson, NY
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1989 |
Paula Allen Gallery, New York, NY
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1988 |
Paula Allen Gallery, New York, NY
Michael Rockefeller Gallery, SUNY at Fredonia, NY
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1986 |
Mid-Hudson Science and Arts Center, Poughkeepsie, NY
Smith Gallery, Syracuse, NY
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1984 |
Smith Gallery, Syracuse, NY |
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2015 |
Nature Unbound, Forum Gallery, New York, NY
Works From the Permanent Collection, Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV
Art Wynwood, Forum Gallery, Miami, FL
ArtMRKTSanFrancisco, Forum Gallery, San Francisco, CA
ArtMRKThamptons, Forum Gallery, Southhampton, NY
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2014 |
Re-presenting Representation VIII, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY
Works From the Collection, The Hudson River Art Museum, Yonkers, NY
Forum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The 45th Collectors’ Show, The Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas
American Embassy, Sofia, Bulgaria
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2013 |
Singular Vision, Forum Gallery, New York, NY
W.O.P., Forum Gallery, New York, NY
45th Annual Collector's Show, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
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2012 |
Five Decades: Art and Artists of Forum Gallery 1962-2012, Forum Gallery, New York, NY
Art in Embassies, Sofia, Bulgaria
Art in Embassies, Colombo, Sri Lanka
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2011 |
Vantage Point 2011, Forum Gallery, New York, NY
The Power of Land, American Embassy, Colombo, Sri Lanka
Group Exhibition, Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
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2010 |
Contemporary Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture: A Summer Selection, Forum Gallery, New York, NY
Group Exhibition, Forum Gallery, New York, NY
The Power of Land, American Embassy, Colombo, Sri Lanka
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2009 |
The Platonic Ideal, Forum Gallery, NYC
Summer Selections, Forum Gallery, NYC
Scene in America, Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte, NC
Gallery Artists, New Work, Forum Gallery, NYC
Gallery Artists, Forum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
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2008 |
Gallery Artists, New Work, Forum Gallery, NYC
New Acquisitions, Forum Gallery, NYC
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2007 |
The Contemporary Landscapes Show, Forum Gallery, New York, NY
Modern and Contemporary Landscapes, Forum Gallery, New York, NY
The Art of the Gettysburg Review: Representation in Contemporary American Painting, Schmucker Art Gallery, PA
The Importance of the Environment, American Embassy, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Landscape, Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
The Faculty Show, Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Ct
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2006 |
The Importance of the Environment, American Embassy, Dhaka, Bangladesh
New Works By Gallery Artists, Forum Gallery, NYC
Summer Exhibition, Forum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
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2005 |
Summer Days, Forum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Gallery Artists, Forum Gallery, New York, NY
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2004 |
Contemporary Landscapes, Forum Gallery, NYC
American Embassy in Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Works by Forum Gallery Artists, Forum Gallery, NYC
Works on Paper, Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Skies and Scapes, DFN Gallery, NYC
Contemporary Landscapes, Forum gallery, NYC
NY City, DFN Gallery, NYC
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2003 |
Forum Gallery, NYC
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2002 |
Forum Gallery, NYC
Stux Gallery, NYC
DFN Gallery, NYC
Tom Androla Gallery, Houston, TX
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2001 |
Stux Gallery, NYC
New Gallery, Houston, TX
DFN Gallery, NYC
Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
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2000 |
The Discovery Museum, Bridgeport, CT
New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ
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1999 |
Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY
DFN Gallery, NYC
TIAA CREF, NYC
Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Forrest Scott Gallery, Millburn, NJ
DFN Gallery, NYC
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1998 |
Delaware Art Museum, Annex Gallery, DE
Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL
DFN Gallery, NYC
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1997 |
Berman Museum of Art, Ursinus College, Collegeville, PA
Elaine Langone Center Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
Hurlbutt Gallery, Greenwich, CT
Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL
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1996 |
Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL
Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
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1995 |
Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL
Peter Joseph Gallery, New York, NY
Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL
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1994 |
Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL
Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL
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1993 |
Bent F. Larsen Gallery, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL
Eastern New Mexico University, Portales, NM
State of the Art Gallery, Ithaca, NY
The Hammond Galleries, Lancaster, OH
Redding Museum of Art, Redding, CA
Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL
Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
Five Points Gallery, East Chatham, NY
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1992 |
College Art Gallery, SUNY at New Paltz, NY
Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL
Stedman Art Gallery, Rutgers University, NJ
A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, CT
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1991 |
Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI
Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Erector Square Gallery, New Haven, CT
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1990 |
Graham Horstman Gallery, Denton, TX
Westminster College Art Gallery, New Wilmington, PA
Redding Museum of Art, Redding, CA
Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX
The Nave Museum, Victoria, TX
Cultural Activities Center, Temple, TX
Dishman Art Gallery, Lamar University, Beaumont, TX
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1989 |
Southwestern University, Georgetown, TX
Shore Art Gallery, Abilene Christian University, Abilene, TX
Dutchess County Armory, Poughkeepsie, NY
Holman Gallery, trenton State College, Trenton, NJ
Valeur, Rhinebeck, NY
Hopkins Art Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
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1987 |
The Alternative Museum, NYC
Mid-Hudson Science and Arts Center, Poughkeepsie, NY
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1986 |
Paula Allen Gallery, NYC
Michael Rockefeller Gallery, SUNY at Fredonia, NY
Lowe Art Gallery, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
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1984 |
Cheltenham Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
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1983 |
Paley/Levy Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
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1980 |
State Capital Rotunda, Harrisburg, PA
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1978 |
Harrisburg Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA |
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2016 |
The Seniors, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University,
Middletown, CT
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2015 |
The Seniors, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University,
Middletown, CT
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2014 |
The Seniors, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University,
Middletown, CT
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2013 |
The Seniors, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University,
Middletown, CT
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2012 |
The Seniors, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University,
Middletown, CT
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2010 |
Selections from The Florence Griswold Museum, The Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, CT
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Arkansas Art Center
Barclay's
Barnabas Health
Beck's Beer
Brauerei Beck & Company
Cablevision
The Chubb Group
City of Philadelphia District Attorney's Office
Creedon Keller and Partners
Deloitte Touch
Epoch Investment Partners, Inc.
The Federal Reserve Bank
General Electric Corporation
The Grand America Hotel
Hanseatic Corporation
Hudson River Museum
The Huntington Museum of Art
Invenergy
Katten Muchin Rosenman L.L.P
Marquard Bank
Mastercard Corporation
Medicis Corporation
Metropolitan Life
The Millbrook School
Moore College of Art
NBC Universal
The New Orleans Museum of Art
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Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, P. C.
Omni Hotels
Redding Art Museum
Russ Corporation
Ruth Chenvin Foundation
Savoy Restaurant
Seven Bridges Foundation
St. Barnibis Health Care Systems
Southpoint Capital Advisors, LP
Steelcase Corporation
Syracuse University
TD Bank
Tower Group
Trenton State College
U.S. Department of State
VanGuard Collection
Vlasic Corporation
Wesleyan University
Wiley Publishing
Women's Health U.S.A.
Zilkha & Company
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Wesleyan University Project Grant |
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2015 |
Walter Gropius Master Artist, Huntington Museum of Art |
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2015 |
Wesleyan University Project Grant |
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2014 |
Wesleyan University Project Grant |
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2013 |
Binswanger Prize for Excellence in Teaching |
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2012 |
Wesleyan University Project Grant |
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2011 |
Wesleyan University Project Grant |
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1998 |
Distinguished Honorary Artists Committee, MacDowell Colony |
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1994 |
MacDowell Fellow, Peterborough, NH |
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1989- |
Wesleyan University Supplementary Grant in Support of Scholarship (1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003) |
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1984-86 |
Syracuse University Graduate Fellow |
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1984 |
Marion Locks Award for Excellence in Painting |
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1980-84 |
Moore College of Art Traveling Fellowship |
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1983 |
W.W. Smith Foundation Grant |
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1980 |
Pennsylvania State Women's Caucus Art Award |
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1978 |
Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Arts Fellowship |
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Tula Telfair: Invented landscapes, Henry Adams, Michael s. Roth, J. Michael Fay, ABRAMS, 2016. MONOGRAPH
Weiss, Allie. “Serene Artist’s Studio Lets in Just Enough Scenery To Not Be Distracting.” Dwell, 29, April, 2015.
Tramontana, Lisa. “Landscape Art Draws You In.” BLUSH, March 2015.
Miller, Robin. “Tula Telfair LASM Exhibit Will Show Off Her Epic Vistas.” The Acadian Advocate, January 27, 2015.
Roth, Michael. “Luminous Concreteness.” Zilkha Gallery, 2014.*
Eliasoph, Philip. “Dream World.” Fairfield Living, November/December 2014.
Malinsky, Barbara. “Tula Telfair: A World of Dreams.” Ink Magazine, December 2014: 68-75.
Foster, Christine. “ Imaginary Landscapes.” Wesleyan Magazine, 10 December, 2014.
Dunne, Susan. “Tula Telair’s ‘World of Dreams’ At Wesleyan.” The Hartford Courant, 4 November, 2014:
“Tula Telfair.” New York Talent Magazine, 1 March, 2014.
New York Times, 19 October, 2014: 7.
Lockman, Sharifa. “Dive Into Telfair’s ‘World of Dreams’ at Zilkha Gallery.” The Argus, 17 September, 2014
Bennett, Rick. “Earth, Air and Water: Contemporary Landscape Painting.” AEQAI, September 22, 2013
Leggio, Gail. “Framing Nature.” Newington-Cropsey Cultural
Studies Center, Fall 2013
Hillary Rodham Clinton. "Our Accord with the Earth." Art in Embassies Exhibition 2011.
"Tula Telfair Exhibition at the Florence Griswold Museum." Museumpublicity.com, April 5, 2010.
"Florence Griswold Museum to Show Works by Contemporary Artist Tula Telfair." Artdaily.org, April 22, 2010.
Leggio, Gail. "Keep it Fresh: Contemporary Artists Exploring Tradition." American Arts Quarterly Summer 2010.
Kobasa, Stephen. "Krieble Gallery at Connecticut's Griswold Museum Features Landscapes of Tula Telfair." Artes Magazine, June 3, 2010.
"Florence Griswold Museum to Show Works by Contemporary Artist Tula Telfair." Artdaily.org, June 6, 2010.
Barry, Amy. "Imaginary Places You're Sure You've Seen Before." The Times, May 27, 2010, pp 1, 14.
Barry, Amy. "Imaginary Places You're Sure You've Seen Before." Theday.com, May 27, 2010.
Hartford Courant/courant.com, April 22, 2010, Pp. 2.
Beem, Edgar Allen. "The Intellectual Landscape: Tula Telfair at the Griswold Museum." Yankee Magazine, April 14, 2010.
Whitcomb, Robert. "Manipulating Landscape." This New England, April 20, 2010.
"Tula Telfair at the Florence Griswold Museum." Grace Magazine, March 22, 2010.
"Florence Griswold Museum to Feature Tula Telfair's Landscapes in Counterpoint." Art Knowledge News, April 2010.
"Complementary Landscapes." The Day.Com, April 20, 2010.
"Tula Telfair's Oil Paintings to be on Display at Local Museum." Sisteen Art Gallery, April 2010.
"Florence Griswold Museum to Show Works by Artist Tula Telfair." Fine Arts News, April 2010.
"Tula Telfair's Landscapes in Counterpoint." Curatedfag.com, April 12, 2010.
"Tula Telfair Exhibition at the Florence Griswold Museum." Museumpublicity.com, April 5, 2010.
"Florence Griswold Museum to Show Works by Contemporary Artist Tula Telfair." Artdaily.org, April 22, 2010.
Meyer, Ruth. "Mirroring Air, Earth, Water". The Artist's Magazine, May 2009, p 36-43.
Pesci, David."Working the Blank Canvas". Wesleyan Magazine, 2008 Issue II, p 24-29.
Tula Telfair, American Arts Quarterly, Volume 25, Number 3, 2008.
Tula Telfair, apartment therapy, New York, online July 25, 2008.
Tula Telfair Exhibition Review, The Newington-Cropsey Cultural Studies Center online, Summer 2008.
Tula Telfair: Located at the Edge of a Momentary Convergence: New Landscape Paintings, Forum Gallery, 2008.
Art of the Gettysburg Review: Representation in Contemporary Painting, By Peter Stitt and Molly S. Hutton, 2007.
Goodrich, John. "Transported by the Traditional". THE NEW YORK SUN, July 5, 2007.
Hutton, Molly S. "Big Skies: The Imaginary Landscapes of T. Telfair". The Gettysburg Review, Autumn 2006, p 414-424.
United States Embassy Dhaka ART in Embassies Exhibition, By Patricia A. Butenis, US Embassy Dhaka, February 2007.
Tula Telfair, By Robert Fishko, Forum Gallery, 2006.
Mallarkey, Maureen. "The Extraordinary is Everywhere". The New York Sun, March 16, 2006.
Art. The New York Sun, April 4, 2006.
NYC.Com. "Tula Telfair: Paintings".
Bartlet, Olivia. "Telfair Paints from Memory Via Her Heart". The Wesleyan Connection, May 5, 2005.
Sims, Carol. "US Artists: Going Strong", Antiques and the Arts On-Line, November 2, 2005.
Mallarkey, Maureen. "Contemporary landscapes", The New York Sun, August 26, 2004.
Morton, Julia. "Land equals Power", The New York Press, August 18, 2004.
Tula Telfair, New Work, By Robert Fishko, Forum Gallery, 2004.
Orville O. Clarke, Jr. "Tula Telfair," Artscene, Vol. 23 No, 8, April 2004.
Silberman, Vanessa. "Fall fair Debut makes Successful First Run". Art Business News, November 2002.
Tula Telfair, New Paintings, By Doninick Lombardi, DFN Gallery and Snyderman Gallery, 2001.
Sims, Carol. "USArtists: Going Strong." Antiques and the Arts, 2001.
Tula Telfair, "Events of Foreign Countries." L'Ecosistema Della Cultura Contemporanea. November 28, 2001
Forces of Nature, By Benjamin Ortiz, The Discovery Museum. 2000.
On the Horizon: Landscape at the Millennium, By Nancy Cohen, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, 2000.
Zimmer, William. "Drama in Nature: Burning Oil Fields, Cascading Water," The New York Times, Sunday February 6,2000.
"Gallery Show Examines Landscape," The Independent Press, March 2000.
Bischoff, Dan. "Millennial Landscapes," The Star Ledger, MARCH 2000.
Moss, Lynne. "Context is Everything: New York Artist Tula Telfair Redefines Landscape Painting by Uniting Romanticism with Minimalism," American Artist. Summer 2000.
NY Arts, "Picks," Vol. 4 No11, 1999.
NY Arts, "Q&T With Tula Telfair," Vol. 4 No. 6, 1999.
Sozanski, Edward. "Art, Museums and Galleries," THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, October 22, 1999.
Tula Telfair, New Paintings, By Lisa Tremper Hanover and Gresham Riley, Snyderman Gallery and DFN Gallery, 1999.
Zimmer, William. "Drama in Nature: Burning Oil Fields, Cascading Water," The New York Times, February 6, 1999.
Tula Telfair, Constructed Landscapes: Series III and IV, by Eileen Neff, Snyderman Gallery and DFN Gallery, 1998.
Sozanski,Edward. "Art, Museums and Galleries," The Philadelphia Inquirer, February 20, 1998.
"Everything Old is New Again," The Player, April 1998, p. 64-66.
"Diverse Exhibits on View at Trio of Area Museums," Times-Harold, March 28, 1997.
"The Arts," The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 23, 1997.
"New Exhibit on View at Ursinus," The Mercury, January, 30, 1997.
"The Pastoral Experience for Today's World," Greenwich Times, April 20, 1997.
The Contemporary Landscape, by Lisa Barnes and Barbara Zucker, Berman Museum, 1997.
"Pastoral Experiences at Hurlbutt Gallery," Greenwich Times, March 12, 1997.
"Hurlbutt to Open its Most Elegant Show," Greenwich Post, March 7, 1997.
ARTbibliographies, "Tula Telfair," Vol. 27 No 1, 1996.
USArtists 96, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1996.
Light Years, by Le Anne Schreiber, Lyons and Burford, 1996 (Book Jacket Cover).
The Rules of Beauty: The Paintings of Tula Telfair, by Edward Warteck, Rosenberg Gallery, 1995.Giuliano, Mike. "Exhibits Showcase Painters Going Back to Nature," September 13, 1995.
Camper, Fred. "Landscapes of the Mind," CHICAGO READER, May 22, 1994.
Tula Telfair, by Susan Snodgrass, Peter Miller Gallery, 1994.
Drawing 1993, by Harvey Breverman, Brigham Young University, 1994.
Scene and Unseen, Eastern New Mexico University, 1994.
"Landscapes on Broadway," The New Villager, December 16, 1992.
Shine, James, G. "Art + Environment = SUNY Exhibit," DAILY FREEMAN, July 17, 1992.
Rutgers National '92 Works on Paper, by Lisa Phillips, Stedman Art Gallery, Rutgers University, 1992.
Points of View II - Women's Art, Westminster College Art Gallery, by Marlena Hobson, Westminster College, 1990.
The Education of Painters: A Symposium, Alliance of Independent Art Colleges, 1990.
The Image of the Horse, by Richard McLean, Redding Art Museum, 1990.
National Drawing '89, By Ann Percy and Bruce Rigby, Trenton State College, 1989.
At the Edge, A National Print and Drawing Exhibition, by Barry Walker, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, 1989.
Mitchell, Annette. "In Black and White," ART NEW ENGLAND, February 1989.
Yellin, Deborah. "Tula Telfair/Linda Cunningham," 108 REVIEW, NY, January/February 1988.
BUFFALO EVENING OBSERVER, "Preview," July 15, 1988.
From The Files: Curator's Choice, The Alternative Museum, 1987.
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