- Oronzo Vito Gasparo
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Oronzo Vito Gasparo (1903 to 1969), was an American artist often known for surreal townscape painting, design, crafts.
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Background
Oronzo Vito Gasparo was born in Rutigliano, Bari, Italy in 1903, spent many active years in California, and died in New York in 1969.
Gasparo studied at the National Academy of Design in New York; he was mentored by Preston Dickinson[1] and was Dickinson's favorite pupil.
Early years
Oronzo Vito Gasparo worked under the Works Progress Administration Easel Project during the Great Depression.
Work
During his lifetime he had over 40 one-man shows ranging from 1928 to a retrospective in 1974.
Methods
- Designer
- Painting
Mediums
Styles
Subjects
- Architecture/Buildings
- Figure
- Genre (Human Activity)
- Spanish Missions
- Townscape
Exhibitions
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Carnegie Institute
- Corcoran Gallery
- Museum of Modern Art, New York
- Pennsylvania Academy
- Salons of America
- Society of Independent Artists
- Whitney Museum of American Art
Trivia
- Gasparo was an avid dancer and claimed to have brought the rumba to New York.
References
Books
Year Author Title 2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference, The Gold Edition 2005 AskART.com Inc./Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor) The Artists Bluebook, 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 2002 Hughes, Edan Milton Artists in California: 1786-1940, Two Volumes 1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art 1564-1975, 3 Volumes 1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago 1989 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts 1988 Geske, Norman/Karen Janovy The American Painting Collection, The Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery 1985 Falk, Peter Hastings Who Was Who in American Art, Artists Active 1898-1947 1984 Marlor, Clark S The Society of Independent Artists, Exhibition Record 1917-1944 1977 Barr, Alfred H Painting and Sculpture, in the Museum of Modern Art 1975 Editor, Smithsonian Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection 1966 Editors Who's Who in American Art-1966 1948 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Index of Artists International Biographical, 2 Volumes 1947 Editors Who's Who in American Art-1947 1936 Museum of Modern Art New Horizons in American Art, Federal Art Project exhibition Museums
- Butler Institute of American Art
- Michelson Museum of Art
- Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
Article
Categories:- American artists
- Works Progress Administration workers
- 1903 births
- 1969 deaths
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