"I enjoy painting sometimes. Some day I will make a good painting---a masterpiece of work, some day before I die." Andrea Badami, quoted by Gregg Blasdel in "Symbols and Images", courtesy Mr. and... Read full biography
"I enjoy painting sometimes. Some day I will make a good painting---a masterpiece of work, some day before I die." Andrea Badami, quoted by Gregg Blasdel in "Symbols and Images", courtesy Mr. and Mrs. Elias Getz, Twentieth-Century American Folk Art and Artists, Herbert W. Hemphill Jr. and Julia... Read full biography
"I enjoy painting sometimes. Some day I will make a good painting---a masterpiece of work, some day before I die." Andrea Badami, quoted by Gregg Blasdel in "Symbols and Images", courtesy Mr. and Mrs. Elias Getz, Twentieth-Century American Folk Art and Artists, Herbert W. Hemphill Jr. and Julia Weissman, 1974. Biography. Although his talent was evident in childhood drawings, circumstances prevented Andrea Badami from pursuing his artistic inclinations until later in life. When he was a child,... Read full biography
"I enjoy painting sometimes. Some day I will make a good painting---a masterpiece of work, some day before I die." Andrea Badami, quoted by Gregg Blasdel in "Symbols and Images", courtesy Mr. and Mrs. Elias Getz, Twentieth-Century American Folk Art and Artists, Herbert W. Hemphill Jr. and Julia Weissman, 1974. Biography. Although his talent was evident in childhood drawings, circumstances prevented Andrea Badami from pursuing his artistic inclinations until later in life. When he was a child, Badami and his parents returned to their native Corleone, Sicily; as a young man, he was unwillingly conscripted into Mussolini's army despite his American citizenship and was taken prisoner by the British. Upon his release in 1947, Badami returned to... Read full biography
"I enjoy painting sometimes. Some day I will make a good painting---a masterpiece of work, some day before I die." Andrea Badami, quoted by Gregg Blasdel in "Symbols and Images", courtesy Mr. and Mrs. Elias Getz, Twentieth-Century American Folk Art and Artists, Herbert W. Hemphill Jr. and Julia Weissman, 1974. Biography. Although his talent was evident in childhood drawings, circumstances prevented Andrea Badami from pursuing his artistic inclinations until later in life. When he was a child, Badami and his parents returned to their native Corleone, Sicily; as a young man, he was unwillingly conscripted into Mussolini's army despite his American citizenship and was taken prisoner by the British. Upon his release in 1947, Badami returned to the United States, and within two years was able to send for his wife and young daughter in Sicily. His need to support a growing f... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (5)
Publications based on askART research. List may not be comprehensive.
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Contemporary American Folk Art A Collectors's Guide
1996
Rosenak, Chuck and Jan
320 pages (color)
American Self-Taught: Paintings and Drawings by Outsider Artists
1993
Maresca, Frank, Roger Ricco
298 pages (color)
Museum of American Folk Art Encyclopedia of 20th Century Folk Art and Artists