Italo Botti - Artist Info

About Italo Botti

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George Jr Barrell, George Italo Botti
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    Following is the Chicago Tribune obituary of the artist.

    Artist's paintings alive with joy and happiness
    May 03, 2003|
    By Amy E. Nevala, Tribune staff reporter.

    During an artistic career that spanned more than half a century, Italo George Botti created thousands of works, often painting two canvases at a time and running from one to the other as the ideas came.

    "Yellow, blue, green, his paintings always depicted joy and happiness," said his brother, former DuPage County Board Chairman Aldo Botti. "If ever a man could paint a breeze, the aroma of flowers and the sound of music, it was him."

    Italo George Botti, 80, an artist whose stained glass work, mosaics and sculptures appear in Chicago and ...

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