The following is based on information provided by Marcia Corbino, wife of Jon Corbino, and was updated with a publication list by Lee Corbino, daughter of the artist :

Jon Corbino, N.A. (1905-1964)

A highly acclaimed artist for heroic themes revealing the anxieties of America during the 1930s, Jon Corbino depicted disasters such as wars and floods. These paintings were tributes to the perseverance of man against unknown forces of the universe. He was much admired for his skill in draftsmanship and brilliant, smoldering colors.
He was also known for his love of horses, sometimes painting these powerful animals as mythic symbols from the Greek legends of the childhood. In addition, he painted the fantasy of the circus and the ballet, often from back stage where the performers were captured in a reflective moment.

Jon Corbino was born in Vittoria, Sicily in 1905 and came to the United States with his parents at the age of 8. He grew up in New York City and attended the Ethical Culture Fieldston School on an art scholarship and then enrolled in the Art Students League. He received two Guggenheim Fellowships and was elected a member of the National Academy of Design in 1940.

In 1941, he received the first grant awarded to a visual artist from the National Institute of Arts and Letters. The poet Stephen Vincent Benet made the presentation at Carnegie Hall, and in his commendation said that Corbino "has brought to American art rare gifts of color and design, and because of the honesty, richness and variety of his work." Corbino's work was also featured in three Venice Biennales.

In 1966, a critic for the Chicago American wrote of a Corbino retrospective exhibition: "he painted people of the world-people on the beach, in the sun, in the moonlight. But he graced them with spirit, life, and movement that transcend the everyday."

His work is represented in 64 U.S. museums as well as the Lotus Club, New York, NY; First National Bank of Chicago; Fine Arts Society, Sarasota, FL; Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO; Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL; Georgetown University Library, Washington, D.C.; The United States Post Office, Long Beach, Long Island, NY; Town of Rockport, Massachusetts, Rockport, MA.

PUBLICATIONS

2017

Meek, Bill., ed. The Loos Art Gallery Collection at CMON: The Golisano Children’s Museum of Naples. San Francisco: Blurb Inc., 2017. Unpaginated. [ill. Ann in Yellow] COLOR

2014
Checklist of Painters from 1200-1994. Great Britain: London: Routledge. Witt Library of the Courtauld Institute. 2nd ed. 2014. P 107. total of 557 pages, first published

2013
Withington, John. Flood: Nature and Culture. Great Britain: London. Reaktion Books Ltd.

2012
Clause, Bonnie T. Edward Hopper in Vermont. Hanover: University Press of New England. 2012. p

Healey, Robin Patrick. Italian Literature Before 1900 in English Translation: An Annotated Bibliography 1929-2008. Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press. 2011. Chapter 1940-1949, p 127.

2011
Manoguerra, Paul. One Hundred American Paintings. Athens, GA: Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, 2011. pp 243-245 [ill. p243 Rescued—Torpedoed and Adrift] COLOR

Davis, Kristian. Artists of Cape Ann: A 150 Year Tradition. Rockport, MA: 34 Main St Publishers. 2011. (reprint of 2001 original-different publisher.) pp 144-145. (ill.: Down East Farm). COLOR

Faber, David L. and Mendelowitz, Daniel Marcus. A Guide to Drawing. Wadsworth, Cengage Learning. 2011.

A highly acclaimed artist for heroic themes revealing the anxieties of America during the 1930s, Jon Corbino depicted disasters such as wars and floods. These paintings were tributes to the perseverance of man against unknown forces of the universe. He was much admired for his skill in draftsmanship and brilliant, smoldering colors.

He was also known for his love of horses, sometimes painting these powerful animals as mythic symbols from the Greek legends of the childhood. In addition, he painted the fantasy of the circus and the ballet, often from back stage where the performers were captured in a reflective moment.

on Corbino was born in Vittoria, Sicily in 1905 and came to the United States with his parents at the age of 8. He grew up in New York City and attended the Ethical Culture Fieldston School on an art scholarship and then enrolled in the Art Students League. He received two Guggenheim Fellowships and was elected a member of the National Academy of Design in 1940.

In 1941, he received the first grant awarded to a visual artist from the National Institute of Arts and Letters. The poet Stephen Vincent Benet made the presentation at Carnegie Hall, and in his commendation said that Corbino "has brought to American art rare gifts of color and design, and because of the honesty, richness and variety of his work." Corbino's work was also featured in three Venice Biennales.

In 1966, a critic for the Chicago American wrote of a Corbino retrospective exhibition: "he painted people of the world-people on the beach, in the sun, in the moonlight. But he graced them with spirit, life, and movement that transcend the everyday." His work is represented in 64 U.S. museums as well as the Lotus Club, New York, NY; First National Bank of Chicago; Fine Arts Society, Sarasota, FL; Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO; Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL; Georgetown University Library, Washington, D.C.; The United States Post Office, Long Beach, Long Island, NY; Town of Rockport, Massachusetts, Rockport, MA.