Frank Gallo has worked primarily from the human form. The sculptor was born in Toledo, Ohio in 1933, and from 1960, was professor of sculpture at the University of Illinois. He studied art from 1951... Read full biography
Frank Gallo has worked primarily from the human form. The sculptor was born in Toledo, Ohio in 1933, and from 1960, was professor of sculpture at the University of Illinois. He studied art from 1951 to 1959 at the University of Toledo, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan and the... Read full biography
Frank Gallo has worked primarily from the human form. The sculptor was born in Toledo, Ohio in 1933, and from 1960, was professor of sculpture at the University of Illinois. He studied art from 1951 to 1959 at the University of Toledo, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan and the State University of Iowa. In the late 1950s, he began to use the material polyester resin reinforced with fiberglass, which gives his sculpture a viscous finish. Although he is noted for his studies of... Read full biography
Frank Gallo has worked primarily from the human form. The sculptor was born in Toledo, Ohio in 1933, and from 1960, was professor of sculpture at the University of Illinois. He studied art from 1951 to 1959 at the University of Toledo, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan and the State University of Iowa. In the late 1950s, he began to use the material polyester resin reinforced with fiberglass, which gives his sculpture a viscous finish. Although he is noted for his studies of women, some of whom are fancifully and colorfully clad, Gallo has also made sculptures of men, including Abraham Lincoln. Often distorting his life-like figures Gallo has commented: "I'm obsessed with the female figure. I get static from some women -... Read full biography
Frank Gallo has worked primarily from the human form. The sculptor was born in Toledo, Ohio in 1933, and from 1960, was professor of sculpture at the University of Illinois. He studied art from 1951 to 1959 at the University of Toledo, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan and the State University of Iowa. In the late 1950s, he began to use the material polyester resin reinforced with fiberglass, which gives his sculpture a viscous finish. Although he is noted for his studies of women, some of whom are fancifully and colorfully clad, Gallo has also made sculptures of men, including Abraham Lincoln. Often distorting his life-like figures Gallo has commented: "I'm obsessed with the female figure. I get static from some women - you know, women's lib- who say that I capitalize on them. But that's not fair. What I... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (33)
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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
Who's Who in American Art, 2004 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition)
2004
McGowan, Alison C (Editor)
1,512 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 1997-1998
1997
Marquis Who's Who
1,515 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts)
1993
Bowker R R
1,473 pages
Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
538 pages
Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition)
1987
Cummings, Paul
653 pages
Varieties of Visual Experience (3rd edition)
1987
Feldman, Edmund Burke
528 pages (color)
Modern American Realism The Sara Roby Foundation Collection (Exhibition catalog)
1987
Mecklenburg, Virginia
148 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986
1986
Jaques Cattell Press
1,292 pages
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
American Artists: An Illustrated Survey of Leading Contemporary Americans
1985
Krantz, Les
347 pages (color)
National Portrait Gallery Collection Illustrated Checklist
1985
Smithsonian Institution
461 pages
Dictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to Present
1984
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
656 pages
Contemporary American Realism Since 1960 (Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts)
1981
Goodyear, Frank H, Jr.
255 pages (color)
The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Art
1981
Osborne, Harold
656 pages (color)
The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art
1981
Rugoff, Milton
669 pages (color)
The Olympics in Art, An Exhibitio Works of Art Related to Olympic Sports (Exhibition catalog)
1980
Munson-Williams-Proctor Inst
166 pages (color)
Dictionary of American Art
1979
Baigell, Mathew
390 pages
Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art
1977
Barr, Alfred H
655 pages
American Sculpture A Guide to Information Sources
1977
Ekdahl, Janis
260 pages
American Art in Belgium (Exhibition catalog)
1977
Societe des Expositions
175 pages (color)
Three Hundred Years of American Art In The Chrysler Museum (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Anderson, Dennis R (Introductory Essay)
270 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition
1976
Jaques Cattell Press
756 pages
Eroticism in Contemporary Art
1972
Kahmen, Volker
282 pages (color)
Inaugural Exhibition 19th & 20th Cen Art from Collections of Alumni (Exhibition catalog)
1970
Blumenthal, Arthur
144 pages
Art Today
1969
Faulkner, Ray; Edwin Ziegfeld
542 pages (color)
The Albert Pilavin Collection Twentieth-Century American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1969
Rhode Island School of Design
60 pages (color)
Venice 34 The Figurative Tradition in Recent American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1968
Geske, Norman A.
131 pages (color)
The Joys and Sorrows of Recent American Art
1968
Weller, Allen S
185 pages
Young America 1965 Thirty American Artists Under 35 (Exhibition catalog)
1965
Goodrich, Lloyd
60 pages
Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture (Exhibition catalog)