Nationality American Name Oronzo Gasparo Ethnicity Italian Role Artist | Citizenship United States Died 1969 Occupation Artist | |
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Education National Academy Museum and School | ||
Oronzo Vito Gasparo (1903–1969), was an American artist often known for surreal townscape painting, design, and 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 City in 1969.
Gasparo studied at the National Academy of Design in New York; he was mentored by Preston Dickinson 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
- Gouache
- Mixed-Media/Multi-Media
- Oil
- Watercolor
Styles
- Surrealism
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
References
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