About Angelo Pinto

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    Angelo Pinto was a painter who taught for nearly six decades at the Barnes Foundation in Merion, Pa.

    One of five brothers, born in Cas'Avellino, Italy, he grew up in Philadelphia, the son of a fruit and vegetable vendor, and with two of his brothers, Salvatore and Biagio, began to study art with Dr. Albert C. Barnes in the late 1920's. Barnes took the brothers under his wing and went with them to Italy and France, where they visited Matisse in his studio. It was Matisse who suggested they paint in North Africa. Barnes supported that trip, and on the way they were mistakenly arrested as spies in Corsica. Matisse vouched for them and they were released.

    Mr. Pinto and his brothers opened a photography studio in New York City in t...

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