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Letterio Calapai Small Linocut print "Northern Lights" Signed / Numbered, 1980 c

Description: Letterio Calapai small linocut print titled "Northern Lights", signed, numbered 27/50. Circa 1980’s.Impression measures 4 inches x 3.5 inches.V good condition. Vintage frame.Letterio Calapai, painter, printmaker, illustrator, and teacher, was born in Boston, Massachusetts on March 29, 1901. Following his graduation from the Massachusetts Normal Art School (now the Massachusetts College of Art) in 1925, he was awarded a two-year scholarship to the School of Fine Arts and Crafts in Boston where he worked under Charles Hopkinson and Howard Giles. In 1928, Calapai moved to New York to continue his studies, taking sculpture at the Beaux Art Institute of Design, figure drawing with Robert Laurent at the Art Students’ League, and the techniques of fresco painting with Ben Shahn at the American Artists School. His first solo exhibition was at the Art Center in New York City in 1933.As a muralist, Calapai painted a mural about 1937 for the WPA entitled The Evolution of Communications in American Wars, which was painted for the 101st Battalion Signal Corps in Brooklyn, New York. He also created several murals for the 1939 New York World’s Fair.Calapai worked at Stanley William Hayter's Atelier 17 in New York between 1946 and 1949, eventually becoming Hayter's assistant. Following this, with Hayter’s recommendation and at the behest of Philip Clarkson Elliott, he was hired to establish the printmaking department at the Albright Art School. He was chairman for six years, during which time the school transitioned to become the University of Buffalo. He returned to New York City in 1955, and in 1959 he received a Tiffany Foundation Grant, allowing him to establish the Intaglio Workshop for Advanced Printmaking in Greenwich Village. Calapai also taught at the New School for Social Research, New York University, and Brandeis University. He moved to Chicago in 1965 and, as visiting Associate Professor, taught at Kendall College, Evanston. The following year, Calapai was asked to teach the summer session of graphics at the University of Illinois, Chicago.Calapai illustrated a variety of literary works centering on sociopolitical and religious themes. Among them were Lorenz Graham's How God Fix Jonah, 1946, with a foreword by W.E.B. DuBois; a portfolio of woodcuts based on Thomas Wolfe's novel Look Homeward Angel, 1948; and The Negro Bible Series, 1946, republished by Cornel West in 1992.The work of Letterio Calapai is included in the collections of the Allentown Art Museum; the Baltimore Museum of Art; the Museum of Fine Arts Boston; the Brooklyn Museum, New York; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth; the Indianapolis Museum of Art; the National Bezalel Museum, Jerusalem; the British Museum, London; the Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis; the Milwaukee Art Museum; the David Owsley Museum of Art, Muncie; the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art, New York; la Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the McNay Art Museum, San Antonio; the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; the Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis; the Sydney Art Museum, Australia; the Georgetown University Library, the Library of Congress, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; and the Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington. Letterio Calapai died in Glencoe, Illinois on his ninety-second birthday, March 29, 1993.See my other auctions of rare art and photography catalogs, art deco and Chicagoana.

Price: 190 USD

Location: Chicago, Illinois

End Time: 2024-02-19T22:00:00.000Z

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Letterio Calapai Small Linocut print "Northern Lights" Signed / Numbered, 1980 cLetterio Calapai Small Linocut print "Northern Lights" Signed / Numbered, 1980 cLetterio Calapai Small Linocut print "Northern Lights" Signed / Numbered, 1980 c

Item Specifics

All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted

Artist: Letterio Calapai

Unit of Sale: Single Piece

Signed By: Letterio Calapai

Size: Small

Date of Creation: C. 1980's

Item Length: 8.5 in

Framing: Framed

Region of Origin: Illinois, USA

Listed By: Dealer or Reseller

Year of Production: 1980

Item Height: 10 in

Style: Vintage

Features: Numbered

Culture: American

Item Width: 1

Handmade: Yes

Time Period Produced: 1980-1989

Image Orientation: Landscape

Signed: Yes

Title: "Northern Lights"

Period: Contemoporary (1970 - 2020)

Material: linocut

Original/Licensed Reprint: Original

Subject: Landscape, Northern Lights

Type: Print

COA Issued By: New England Art Exchange

Theme: Art, Santa Fe, Southwest

Country/Region of Manufacture: United States

Production Technique: Linocut Printing

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