Armando Seguso (Benevento, Italy, 1897- Bronxville, New York, 1984) Painter, Illustrator, Musician.

He immigrated to the United States with his family at the age of four and received his early education in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. A talent for the violin launched him into a career as a musician and after earning fame at the age seventeen for a waltz composition Dream of Mother, Seguso came to New York four years later to study painting at the National Academy of Design, which he financed by playing violin in a cabaret - a job which ended when he barely escaped a bullet in a fracas. He switched to less lucrative, somewhat safer jobs, playing in vaudeville and movie pit orchestras.

Seguso joined a commerci...