Oronzo Vito Gasparo


Oronzo Vito Gasparo, 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, one of seventeen children. His parents were Italian and Hindu. He 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.
A number of Gasparo's works were acquired by Onya La Tour, who was an avid collector and enthusiast of modern art in New York in the 1930's, and who directed the Federal Art Gallery of the Federal Arts Project of the Work Projects Administration, 225 W 57th St, New York NY.

Work

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

Methods

  1. Designer
  2. Painting

    Mediums

  3. Gouache
  4. Mixed-Media/Multi-Media
  5. Oil
  6. Watercolor

    Styles

  7. Surrealism

    Subjects

  8. Architecture/Buildings
  9. Figure
  10. Genre
  11. Spanish Missions
  12. Townscape

    Exhibitions

  13. Art Institute of Chicago
  14. Carnegie Institute
  15. Corcoran Gallery
  16. Museum of Modern Art, New York
  17. Pennsylvania Academy
  18. Salons of America
  19. Society of Independent Artists
  20. Whitney Museum of American Art

    Trivia

Museums

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