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Salvatore Scarpitta SIGNATURES
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
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