Anthony Angarola

Anthony Angarola (1893-1929 [http://www.askart.com/AskART/artists/biography.aspx?searchtype=BIO&artist=71290 Anthony Angarola's biography] at Ask Art.com (accessed on November 8, 2006)] ) was an American painter [http://www.artnet.com/artist/656544/anthony-angarola.html Anthony Angarola] at Artnet.] and art instructor. He graduated from the School of the Art Institute in Chicago. Since he was an Italian immigrant himself, his work focused on people who struggled to adapt to a foreign culture.

=Work=

Angarola taught as an art instructor at the Layton School of Art in Milwaukee in 1921, the Minneapolis School of Art from 1922 to 1925, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1926 and the Kansas City Art Institute from 1926. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1928. [http://www.gf.org/afellow.html "List of Guggenheim Recipients whose name starts with an a"] at the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation website.] He also participated in the Carnagie International exposition in 1928, exhibiting his painting entitled: Proud

=Personal Life=

Angarola was married to Marie Ambrosius, herself a concert pianist. They had two children together, Richard Anthony Angarola (a noted character actor) and Yvonne Daly (an accomplished classical pianist and award winning composer), before divoricing. He has five grandchildren, Richard (also a painter), Anthony (deceased in 1990), Ondine, Susan and Brooke, and one great-grandchild, Aurelia Langford who is an aspiring singer songwriter. Although he died at the young age of 36, he inspired many artists. Two of his noted students were William Schwartz and Belle Baranceanu, with whom he was engaged at the time of his death. His work is now in the permanent collection of several museums including the Chicago Art Institute and the Davis Museum in Boston.

H. P. Lovecraft

Angarola is also notable as one of the favorite artists of the horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. Lovecraft made a reference to the works of Angarola in his short story "The Call of Cthulhu" and did the same in "Pickman's Model". [http://www.hplovecraft.com/life/interest/artists.asp H. P. Lovecraft's favorite artists.] ]

References

[http://www.wellesley.edu/DavisMuseum/whatsnew/angarola.html DAVIS MUSEUM ] at www.wellesley.edu