The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
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Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
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Salvatore Scarpitta PUBLICATIONS
1919 New York City - 2007 New York City. Known for: Sculpture-pop objects, cars, machines.
Painter-sculptor Salvatore Scarpitta was an artist with wide-ranging modernist expression that included wrapped canvases symbolizing death and survival and sculptures of cars and sleds as a metaphor... Read full biography
Painter-sculptor Salvatore Scarpitta was an artist with wide-ranging modernist expression that included wrapped canvases symbolizing death and survival and sculptures of cars and sleds as a metaphor for travel. He was born in 1919 in Manhattan, and was raised in Los Angeles, where his Italian-born... Read full biography
Painter-sculptor Salvatore Scarpitta was an artist with wide-ranging modernist expression that included wrapped canvases symbolizing death and survival and sculptures of cars and sleds as a metaphor for travel. He was born in 1919 in Manhattan, and was raised in Los Angeles, where his Italian-born father, was commissioned to do the bas-relief sculptures on the Los Angeles Stock Exchange Building. His mother was a part-time actress. Scarpitta graduated from Hollywood High School, and then went... Read full biography
Painter-sculptor Salvatore Scarpitta was an artist with wide-ranging modernist expression that included wrapped canvases symbolizing death and survival and sculptures of cars and sleds as a metaphor for travel. He was born in 1919 in Manhattan, and was raised in Los Angeles, where his Italian-born father, was commissioned to do the bas-relief sculptures on the Los Angeles Stock Exchange Building. His mother was a part-time actress. Scarpitta graduated from Hollywood High School, and then went to Italy where from 1936-1958, he lived in Rome, and graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts. He was in the U.S. Navy during World War II, and served as a "monuments man", meaning he was part of a multi-national effort to find, catalog and rescue fine... Read full biography
Painter-sculptor Salvatore Scarpitta was an artist with wide-ranging modernist expression that included wrapped canvases symbolizing death and survival and sculptures of cars and sleds as a metaphor for travel. He was born in 1919 in Manhattan, and was raised in Los Angeles, where his Italian-born father, was commissioned to do the bas-relief sculptures on the Los Angeles Stock Exchange Building. His mother was a part-time actress. Scarpitta graduated from Hollywood High School, and then went to Italy where from 1936-1958, he lived in Rome, and graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts. He was in the U.S. Navy during World War II, and served as a "monuments man", meaning he was part of a multi-national effort to find, catalog and rescue fine art stolen by the Nazis from individual and national collections and also identify monuments and historical s... Read full biography
Salvatore Scarpitta - Artist Info
About Salvatore Scarpitta: Books
Books & Publications (17)
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Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005Davenport, Ray2,421 pagesWho's Who in American Art, 2004 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition)
2004McGowan, Alison C (Editor)1,512 pagesWho Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)3,724 pagesWho's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts)
1993Bowker R R1,473 pagesAmerican Artists of Italian Heritage/1776-1945
1993Soria, Regina178 pagesContemporary Artists (3rd Edition)
1989Naylor, Colin (editor)1,059 pagesDictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition)
1987Cummings, Paul653 pagesWho's Who in American Art-1986 1986
1986Jaques Cattell Press1,292 pagesMantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986Opitz, Glenn B (editor)1,081 pagesDictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to Present
1984Opitz, Glenn B (editor)656 pagesWho's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition
1976Jaques Cattell Press756 pagesThe Joys and Sorrows of Recent American Art
1968Weller, Allen S185 pagesCollage: Personalities, Concepts, Techniques
1967Janis, Harriet/Rudi Blesh342 pagesContemporary American Painting and Sculpture
1965
(Exhibition catalog)University of Illinois210 pagesCollage, Personalities- Concepts-Techniques
1962Janis, Harriet; Rudi Blesh0 pagesThe Cartainos Men of Passion, Men of Stone (second edition)
0Scarpitta, L. Salvatore1,783 pages