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1914 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - 1985. Known for: Abstract landscape painting, Indian totemic.
Excerpts from ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEW WITH PETER BUSA, AT PROVINCETOWN, MASSACHUSETTS, SEPTEMBER 5, 1965, INTERVIEWER: DOROTHY SECKLER. Permission from "Art Times". DS: This is Dorothy Seckler... Read full biography
Excerpts from ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEW WITH PETER BUSA, AT PROVINCETOWN, MASSACHUSETTS, SEPTEMBER 5, 1965, INTERVIEWER: DOROTHY SECKLER. Permission from "Art Times". DS: This is Dorothy Seckler interviewing Peter Busa in Provincetown on September 5th, 1965. Peter, I'd like to begin with some... Read full biography
Excerpts from ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEW WITH PETER BUSA, AT PROVINCETOWN, MASSACHUSETTS, SEPTEMBER 5, 1965, INTERVIEWER: DOROTHY SECKLER. Permission from "Art Times". DS: This is Dorothy Seckler interviewing Peter Busa in Provincetown on September 5th, 1965. Peter, I'd like to begin with some discussion of your early background, when and where you were born and the kind of family background it was and anything in your childhood that may have predisposed you to become an artist. PB: Well, my early... Read full biography
Excerpts from ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEW WITH PETER BUSA, AT PROVINCETOWN, MASSACHUSETTS, SEPTEMBER 5, 1965, INTERVIEWER: DOROTHY SECKLER. Permission from "Art Times". DS: This is Dorothy Seckler interviewing Peter Busa in Provincetown on September 5th, 1965. Peter, I'd like to begin with some discussion of your early background, when and where you were born and the kind of family background it was and anything in your childhood that may have predisposed you to become an artist. PB: Well, my early background was in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I come from a long family of artisans and artists. I think there's been an artist in my family as far back as we can trace. The family is of Sicilian origin. My father was an Italian craftsman who was... Read full biography
Excerpts from ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEW WITH PETER BUSA, AT PROVINCETOWN, MASSACHUSETTS, SEPTEMBER 5, 1965, INTERVIEWER: DOROTHY SECKLER. Permission from "Art Times". DS: This is Dorothy Seckler interviewing Peter Busa in Provincetown on September 5th, 1965. Peter, I'd like to begin with some discussion of your early background, when and where you were born and the kind of family background it was and anything in your childhood that may have predisposed you to become an artist. PB: Well, my early background was in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I come from a long family of artisans and artists. I think there's been an artist in my family as far back as we can trace. The family is of Sicilian origin. My father was an Italian craftsman who was specialist with religious murals, and he did commercial murals for churches. So my early stimulus was by accompanying my father on Saturdays,... Read full biography
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Art Method
- •Automatism, Automatic Writing, Drawing
- •Easel Painting
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
- •Palette Knife, Heavy Texture
Art Media
- •Charcoal
- •Fresco Painting, Murals
- •Gouache
- •Ink
- •Mixed Media, Multi Media and/or Multli Styles
- •Oil Paint
- •Pen and Ink Drawing
- •Plastics
- •Watercolor/Watercolour
- •Wood for carving, sculpture, and/or surface
Art Style
- •Abstract Expressionism
- •Abstraction, Abstract
- •Cubism, Cubist
- •Geometric Abstraction, Linear, Grids, Hard Edge
- •Modernist, Modernism (Partially Abstract, Leading Edge)
- •New York School/Abstract Expressionism
- •Pure Abstraction, Line, Shape, Color, Texture
Art Subject
- •Indians, Native American Specialty
- •Indians, Native Americans
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Cape Cod, Massachusetts
- •Provincetown, Massachusetts
Art Association
- •Art Students League, New York
- •Indian Space Painter
Art Teacher
- •Hans Hofmann
- •Thomas Hart Benton
Art School
- •Art Students League of New York, Student
- •Carnegie Mellon Technical Institute, University, Student
- •Cooper Union Art School, Cooper School of Design, Teacher
- •Hans Hofmann School of Art, Student
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Art Educator:Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
- •Mural Specialty
- •WPA Artist, Federal Art Project, Murals and Easel Paintings
Notable Commercial Gallery Representation, Pre 21s
- •Art of This Century, Peggy Guggenheim, New York City
Exhibition of Museum
- •Art Institute of Chicago
- •Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum/Museum of Non Objective Painting
- •Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art
Exhibition By An Art School
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts