ARTIST: Louis Bosa (New York, Pennsylvania, Italian, 1905 - 1981)
TITLE: Selling Fruit (titled on label)
YEAR: 1953
MEDIUM: oil on canvas
CONDITION: Few repaired tears. Some flaking/paint losses. Some craquelure. No visible inpaint under UV light. Minor damages to frame.
ART SIZE: 14 x 20 inches / 35 x 50 cm
FRAME SIZE: 21 x 27 inches / 53 x 68 cm
SIGNATURE: lower left
PROVENANCE: Kleemann Galleries, NY (has label on verso)
NAME VARIANTS: Luigi Bosa
CATEGORY: old antique vintage painting for auction sale online
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BIOGRAPHY:
Born in Codroipo, near Venice, Italy, the son of a stonemason, Bosa became a genre, figure and landscape painter who exhibited widely and was a much-respected art teacher. Art historians have apparently found his work difficult to categorize. Aged fifteen, he enrolled at the Academia delle Belle Arti, Venice. Around 1923/1924 he emigrated to Hamilton, Canada, from there to Buffalo, New York and then to New York City to pursue art studies. Bosa studied under John Sloan, of the Ashcan School, at the Art Students League. In 1938, he won the John Wanamaker Prize and he was awarded the Altman Prize at the National Academy of Design, although this was withdrawn when it was discovered that he was not American born. From 1944 to 1946, he was an instructor at the Art Students League in New York City and from 1943 to 1946, and taught at the Cape Ann School at Rockport, Massachusetts. By 1960, he was ‘Instructor of Advanced Painting’ at the Cleveland Institute of Art. He also taught at the Parsons School of Design, Syracuse University, and the University of Notre Dame. Bosa painted for the Works Progress Administration and for the Whitney Museum. In New York, he exhibited at The Kleeman Galleries and the Milch Galleries, and in 1951, he accepted an assignment from Life magazine to visit his hometown of Codroipo, Italy, a village near Venice, to paint the local people. Bosa's paintings are in many museum collections, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Whitney Museum, The Philadelphia Museum, The Toronto Art Museum and The Columbus Museum of Arts & Crafts.