Daniel Ralph Celentano (American, 1902-1980)

Two Drawings: Study of Figures After an Automobile Accident and Seated African American Woman
Figures signed "D.R. Celentano" l.r., inscribed "strength [of] mind is exercise and not rest" u.r.; Seated Woman unsigned.
Figures graphite on paper, sight size 10 3/4 x 8 1/4 in. (27.3 x 20.8 cm); Seated Woman ink and wash on laid paper, sight size 9 3/8 x 7 3/8 in. (24.0 x 18.8 cm).
Condition: Figures with staining, small loss to paper at u.c., toning, handling creases, Seated Woman with small loss u.r., small tears along vertical sides, crease across l.l. corner, handling creases, pale staining and foxing; not examined out of frames.

N.B. At the age of twelve, Daniel Celentano was Thomas Hart Benton's first and youngest student. Celentano, whose parents were Italian immigrants, often found subject matter in the neighborhood of New York City where he was born and raised. Awarded several scholarships, Celentano began his art education at Charles Hawthorne's Cape Cod School of Art in Provincetown, Massachusetts, in 1918 and studied further at the New York School of Fine And Applied Art and the National Academy of Design.

He had a notable career as an American Scene painter during the WPA and WWII era, with his first one-man exhibition at the Walker Art Galleries in 1939.

Biography exerpted from: https://www.askart.com/artist/Daniel_Ralph_Celentano/100464/Daniel_Ralph_Celentano.aspx

Framed dimensions: 20 x 18 in. (Accident); 17 1/4 x 15 3/4 in. (Woman)

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