Oronzo Vito Gasparo

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Nationality American Name Oronzo Gasparo Ethnicity Italian Role Artist		Citizenship United States Died 1969 Occupation Artist

Education National Academy Museum and School

Oronzo Vito Gasparo (1903–1969), was an American artist often known for surreal townscape painting, design, and crafts.

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.

Oronzo Vito Gasparo worked under the Works Progress Administration Easel Project during the Great Depression.

During his lifetime he had over 40 one-man shows ranging from 1928 to a retrospective in 1974.

Gasparo was an avid dancer and claimed to have brought the rumba to New York.

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