Salvatore Scarpitta

Salvatore Scarpitta

Salvatore Scarpitta (23 March 1919 – 10 April 2007) was an American artist best known for his sculptural studies of motion.Shattuck, Kathryn (April 16, 2007). Salvatore Scarpitta, New York Artist, Dies at 88. "New York Times"]

Scarpitta was born in New York City and grew up in Los Angeles graduating form Hollywood High School. He served in the United States Navy during World War II, preserving and cataloguing art stolen by Nazis. After the war, Scarpitta remained in Rome. During his time in Rome he was represented by the premier modern art gallery in Italy, Galleria La Tartaruga. In 1958 Leo Castelli saw his work and asked him to move to N.Y.C. and join his Gallery. Scarpitta remained with Castelli until Leo's death in 1999. Theirs was a partnership formed out of love,trust and mutual respect.

From the years 1959 until 1992, Scarpitta had 10 one man shows at the Castelli Gallery in NYC. He also was a part of many Castelli group shows that included artists such as Norman Bluhm, Andy Warhol, Robert Rauchenberg, James Rosenquist, John Chamberlain and Julian Schnabel, just to name a very few. Scarpitta's work is part of the permanent collection at the Museum of Modern Art-NYC, Whitney Museum of Art, the Albright-Knox Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Kunstsammlungen zu Weimar Museum-Germany, Civico Museo d'Arte Contemporanea-Milano,the Guttuso Museum-Italy, P.S 1 Collection-NYC and the Houston Museum of Contemporary Art. Scarpitta also exhibited at numerous Venice Biennials.

His work is characterized by wrapped canvasses, found and wrapped objects made into sleds, and automobile themes.

Sal was the owner of a sprint car team based out of New Chester,PA. The car was campaigned under the number 59 and was a regular on the very competitive central Pennsylvaina circuit. He had many drivers of note and many victorys. Rick Schemlyun,Jr., Bobby Essick, Richard Lupo, Richard Lupo,Jr., Steve Stambaugh, Joey Allen, Kenny Adams, Jesse Wentz, Keith Kauffman, Bill Brian, Steve Siegle & Jimmy Siegle all filled the seat at one time or another. He was well respected as an owner and upon his retirement as the team principle, the team was sold to the Siegle's and still carries the number 59 today. The car owns victories at Williams Grove, Lincoln, and Susquehana Speedways. He was close friends with fellow car owner Harry Fletcher. Sal loved racing most, and it was his outsider perspective that made him very unique to the world of racing. Because of his slant he enjoyed the entire spectrum of the experience that is sprint car racing and cared much less about stats. From the arrangment of tread on the tires, the organic aspects of mud, the smell, sounds, right through to the human drama that surrounded it all, racing was the most favorite air he could breathe. He was just as apt to put a tried and true veteran driver in the car as a he was to choose a driver with little experience. The different personalities made the experience entirely different from year to year. He was good to racing and racing was good to him.

Death

He died from complications of diabetes in Manhattan, aged 88. He was survived by his wife of nine months, Dana Scarpitta, and two daughters, artist Lola Scarpitta and Stella Scarpitta Cartaino.

References

External links

* [http://www.salscarpitta.com Salvatore Scarpitta] The Official Salvatore Scarpitta Website
* [http://www.artnet.com/artist/27376/salvatore-scarpitta.html Salvatore Scarpitta] via artnet


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