Frank Corso is an inventor, car builder, musician and painter. As an American impressionist painter, he is known for light-filled landscapes of Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, the North Shore and Cape Ann.

Corso's impressionism is influenced by the work of William Merritt Chase, Edmund C. Tarbell, and especially John Singer Sargent. Corso attempts to lay down in paint that which he sees in a confident, sure manner. Each year he paints on location in Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket, Massachusetts.

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Frank Corso was born in Syracuse, New York. Taking a keen interest in art at a very early age, he was inspired to draw and paint the landscape of the Finger Lakes region of Upstate New York. He was fortunate to have excellent art teachers in high school who also happen to be fine painters (George Benedict and Nick Todisco), and through their influence began to polish his painting style from an early age.

After attending both Onondaga Community College and Syracuse University, he began private study in portrait and figure painting with an Austrian born portrait painter, Robert Hoffmann. This association lasted for over eleven years. He then began to travel and paint extensively around the country and eventually in Europe, focusing his attention on Italy. As time went on he continued study with other portrait painters such as Daniel Greene of New York and Jack Callahan of Rockport, recognizing that the way to gain knowledge of painting was through portrait painters, which he could then apply to landscape painting in order to forge his own style.

Around 1980, he relocated to the North Shore of Massachusetts, an area of the cournty with a rich history of art. He achieved Master status at the Copley Society of Art in Boston and began earning many awards for his work, including The Yankee Sagendorf award and the Grumbacher medal.

His paintings have been included in The Best of Oil Painting and the Best of Pastel hard cover art books by Rockport Publishers and feature articles in Sea History Magazine and Southwest Florida's Expressions magazine. His shows continue to sell-out in both Nantucket, Massachusetts, and in Florida.

Corso currently splits his time between Massachusetts where he maintains a home and studio in Southwest Florida, along with many painting trips around the country and Europe. His many other interests include being a Blues and Old Time musician, building his own guitars and banjos, and restoring and maintaining his award winning 1933 Plymouth coupe. Among the locations of his paintings are the Ritz Carlton, Naples Florida; and The Cloister, Geogia Sea Island.