Italy. 1938 - 1988
Painting and sculpture
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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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Spain. Born 1955
Public sculpture-light and water, assemblage
Italy. 1937 - 1973
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Italy. 1908 - 1991
Public sculpture and painting-bas reliefs, teaching
New York / Switzerland. Born 1948
Furniture as sculpture, performance and installation
New York. Born 1947
Funk biomorph, non ob-geometric
New York, Ohio. Born 1950
Sculptor-text installations, conceptual art
Massachusetts, New York / France. 1926 - 2014
Appropriation art, pop art painting and sculpture
California, Texas / Italy, France. 1915 - 1995
Abstract painting, collage-'Art Informal'
California / Germany. Born 1972
Geometric block sculpture, collage, abstraction, video installation, painting
New York. Born 1955
Non objective photograph imagery, word play, photo books
Italy. Born 1933
Life-size figure paintings, photoscreen images, conceptual
England. Born 1958
Computer generated images-portraits, genre, cartoon figures, pole dancers
New York / Italy. Born 1956
Conceptual art, mixed media non-objective painting
New York, Indiana / Germany. Born 1972
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New York / Germany, England. Born 1949
Sculptor-mod ceramic, graphics
New York, California / Italy, Switzerland. 1912 - 1976
Abstract, cubist painting, murals, teaching
New York, Nevada. Born 1979
Paintings, sculpture
India, United Kingdom. Born 1954
Modernist object sculpture, installation
New York, Tennessee. 1930 - 2019
Non objective-minimal to zero painting
New York, New Mexico. Born 1941
Minimal non ob, installation
District Of Columbia, Maryland. 1921 - 2004
Sculptor, minimalist painting
New York, Texas / Italy. 1911 - 1995
Abstract painting-figurative, landscape, cityscape
France. 1928 - 1962
Mod painting, nudes
New York / China. Born 1957
Performance and conceptual art, installation sculpture
Germany. Born 1938
Portraits abstract figuration, neo-expressionist
New York, California / Japan, Germany. Born 1959
Mod child figurative, animal
New York, Massachusetts. 1935 - 2024
Geometric sculpture, drawing
California / Italy. 1926 - 2025
Spherical abstract public sculpture, religious themes
New York. 1936 - 2024
Multi-media, modernist figure, collage-assemblage, happenings
New York / France, Venezuela. 1930 - 2016
Pop and folk art imagery, assemblage, modernist genre
Italy. 1911 - 2004
Painting and sculpture