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1913 Omaha, Nebraska - 2002 Tucson, Arizona. Known for: Naive figure and genre painting.
"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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Keywords (14)
Art Media
- •Oil Paint
Art Style
Art Subject
- •Animals, Mammals
- •Birds, Ornithology, Avian Art
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Folk Art, Folk Lore
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •Portraits, Portraiture
Chronology
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Figure Specialty
- •Genre Specialty
- •Imprisoned Artist: Wars and/or Political Reasons
Ethnicity of Artist
- •Italian