Matteo Sandona

Gertrude and Boots, painting by Matteo Sandona

Matteo Sandonà (1881–1964) was a painter born in Schio, Italy and raised in the Alps. He immigrated with his family to New Jersey in 1894.^[1] Two years later he returned to Europe for four years of study at the Academy of Fine Arts, Verona and in Paris under Napolean Nami and Moses Bianci. After returning to the United states, he took further training at the National Academy of Design. In 1901, he and his father settled in San Francisco. Sandonà co-founded the California Society of Artists in 1901. In 1903, he made the first of several trips to Hawaii, where he painted portraits of the territory’s elite.^[2]

Sandonà is best known for his luxurious thickly impastoed society portraits. The Honolulu Academy of Arts, the Oakland Museum of California (Oakland, California), the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and the Springville Museum of Art (Springville, Utah) are among the public collections holding work by Matteo Sandonà.^[3][4]

References

• Editoriale, Silvana, Marignoli Ratti and Marzia Ratti, Matteo Sandonà and Hawaiʻi: A Capital Ambition, Honolulu, Honolulu Academy of Arts, 2007.
• Forbes, David W., Encounters with Paradise, Views of Hawaii and its People, 1778-1941, Honolulu Academy of Arts, 1992, 205-206.
• Hughes, Edan, Artists in California 1786-1940, Sacramento, Crocker Art Museum, 2002.
• Severson, Don R. Finding Paradise: Island Art in Private Collections, University of Hawaii Press, 2002, p. 104, 108.

Footnotes

1. ^ Severson, 2002, p. 108
2. ^ Hughes, Edan, 2002
3. ^ AskArt.com
4. ^ Smithsonian American Art Museum, Art Inventories Catolog

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Name	Sandona, Matteo
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Date of birth	1881
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Date of death	1964
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