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PROMENADE – ORONZO VITO GASPARO
New York
March 2, 1936
Oronzo Vito Gasparo (American, 1903-1969) A early opaque gouache when Oronzo was fascinated with urban and industrial subjects.
Biography: Oronzo Vito Gasparo
(1903 – 1969)
Oronzo Gasparo was an Italian-born American modernist painter. born in 1903 and died in New York in 1969. He was an avid dancer and claimed to have brought the Rhumba to New York. Oronzo Gasparo studied art at the National Academy of Design in New York City where he was profoundly influenced by his mentor and teacher, the American painter Preston Dickinson.
During the period this was made, Gasparo was fascinated with machinery and had an optimistic view of the industrial age. Later in his career he turned away from urban and industrial subjects.
He spent some time working for the Works Progress Administration (WPA) during the Depression and exhibited widely throughout his lifetime, including exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, the Oakland Art Gallery, Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco in 1939, the Oakland Art Gallery in 1939, and the New York World’s Fair in 1939. His work has also been exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Carnegie Institute, the Corcoran Gallery, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, among other museums and collections.
During Gasparo’s lifetime he had over 40 one-man shows beginning in 1928.
Addresses: NYC
Profession: Painter, designer, craftsperson
Studied: School Des. & Liberal Arts, NYC, (scholarship); NAD; and with Preston Dickinson.
Exhibited: Salons of America, 1924; Tilden & Thurber Gal., Providence, RI, 1928; Society of Independant Artist., 1931, 1935; Museum of Modern Art, 1936; Art Institude of Chicago, 1938; Pennsylvania Academy Fine Art, 1938, 1944, 1946; Corcoran Gallery., 1939, 1949; WFNY 1939; GGE, 1939; Whitney Museum of American Art , 1938-51, 1944, 1946; CAM, 1945; Camegie Institute, 1941, 1945; Riverside Mus., 1945, 1952; Fisher Gal., 1952; Staten Island Mus., 1961; Retrospective No. 1, Tutti Gal., NY, 1962; Contemporaries, NY, 1964; Tacoma Art Mus., 1964 (solo); Ferargil Gal., 1942-44, 1948; Mortimer Levitt Gal., 1945-54; Mus. New Mexico, 1949; Village AC, 1949-51 (prize), 1952-58 (prize); Rutigliano, Italy, 1955-56; Bari, Italy, 1956; Schneider Gal., Rome, 1956; Crespi Gal., NY, 1957; Hudson Park Branch, NYPL, 1960; Morris Gal., NY, 1960; NY Univ., 1963; NY Univ. Catholic Center, 1964. Awards: Huntington Hartford Fnd. Grant, 1956-57, Indianapolis Museum of Art.
Member: Academy of Fine Arts; Village Art Club
Work:Museum of Modern Art; MMA; Whitney Museum of American Art; Four Arts, Palm Beach; Palm Beach Art Club
Sources: Who Was Who in American Art, Butler Institute of American Art, WW66; WW47; Falk, Exh. Record Series.
Inventory: A-W 3045
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