Robert De Niro, Sr.

Robert De Niro, Sr.

Infobox Artist
name = Robert De Niro, Sr.
imagesize = 190px
caption = Robert De Niro, Sr.
birthname = Robert Mario De Niro, Sr.
birthdate = birth date|1922|1|17
location = Syracuse, New York, United States
deathdate = death date and age|1993|5|3|1922|1|17
deathplace = New York City, New York, United States
nationality = American
movement = painter, abstract expressionist

Robert Mario De Niro, Sr. (January 17, 1922 – May 3, 1993) was an abstract expressionist painter. He is perhaps best known as the father of actor Robert De Niro.cite news | url = http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE5DB1F3BF934A35756C0A965958260 | title = Robert De Niro, 71, A New York Painter And Actor's Father | publisher = New York Times | date = 1993-05-07 | first = Roberta | last = Smith]

Biography

Robert De Niro, Sr., was born in Syracuse, New York, to an Italian American father, Henry Martin De Niro, who was originally of Neapolitan descent, and an Irish mother, Helen O'Reilly. De Niro studied with Hans Hofmann at his Provincetown, Massachusetts summer school where he met fellow student Virginia Admiral, whom he married in 1942. The couple moved into a large, airy loft in New York's Greenwich Village, where they were able to paint. The couple surrounded themselves with an illustrious circle of friends, including writers Anaïs Nin and Henry Miller, playwright Tennessee Williams, and actress and famous Berlin dancer Valeska Gert. Admiral and De Niro separated shortly after their son, Robert De Niro, Jr., was born in August 1943.

De Niro attended Black Mountain College in the 1950s. Being a self proclaimed perfectionist, De Niro painted and repainted his canvases again and again. He would do hundreds of studies before he decided to paint the subject. De Niro was prone to bouts of depression and this encumbered him throughout his life.

De Niro was a visiting artist at Michigan State University's Department of Art in the early 1960s. [cite news | title = Art and Art History Celebrates 75 Years | url = http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/09/25/1032734222540.html | publisher = MSU Alumni Magazine | date = Fall 2006 | first = Michelle | last = Word]

He was also bisexual and had Robert Duncan as a lover.citation |title=Celebrity Art |first=Baird |last=Jones |url=http://www.artnet.com/Magazine/news/jones/jones4-12-04.asp |accessdate=2007-09-22] citation |title=De Niro: A Biography |first=John |last=Baxter |year=2003 |publisher=HarperCollins |isbn=0006532306]

In 2007, son Robert De Niro threatened legal action against the Benucci S.r.l. art gallery, in Rome, Italy, after it allegedly took a number of his father's paintings from a New York arthouse to settle a $5 million debt. [cite news | title = You Takin' My Paintings From Me? | url = http://www.tmz.com/2007/11/19/deniro-to-gallery-you-takin-my-paintings-from-me/ | publisher = TMZ.com | date = 2007-11-19]

Death

Robert De Niro, Sr., died at age 71, on the morning of Monday, May 3, 1993, in New York City. He is interred at Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, New York. Just three months before he died his god children were born, Lauren and Nicholas Martino. Their parents are Anthony Martino and Judith Cuttler, both residents of the Westbeth Artists Community in Greenwich Village. The film "A Bronx Tale" was dedicated to him after his death; it was the directorial debut of his son, Robert De Niro, Jr. [cite news | title = In the name of the father | url = http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/09/25/1032734222540.html | publisher = Sydney Morning Herald | date = 2002-09-26 | first = John | last = Baxter]

ee also

*Westbeth Artists Community

References

* Marika Herskovic, [http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/oclc/50666793&tab=holdings "New York School Abstract Expressionists Artists Choice by Artists,"] (New York School Press, 2000.) ISBN 0-9677994-0-6

External links

* [http://www.blackmountaincollege.org Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center]
* [http://www.bmcproject.org/index.htm The Black Mountain College Project]
* [http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/black_mountain_college.htm A PBS documentary on Black Mountain College]
* [http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/de_niro_sr_robert.html ArtCyclopedia Page on De Niro]
* [http://www.salander.com/artists/artists_estates/deniro.html Detailed information at Salander O'Reilly Galleries]
* [http://www.hackettfreedman.com/templates/artist.jsp?id=DEN Artist overview and biography at Hackett-Freedman Gallery]
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20050322193448/http://www.artsiteguide.com/deniro/ Archive of ArtSiteGuide Biography]


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