Oronzo Vito Gasparo

Oronzo Vito Gasparo (1903–1969), was an American artist often known for surreal townscape painting, design, and crafts.

Oronzo Vito Gasparo was born in Rutigliano, Bari, Italy in 1903, spent many active years in California, and died in New York City in 1969.

Gasparo studied at the National Academy of Design in New York; he was mentored by Preston Dickinson[1] and was Dickinson's favorite pupil.

Oronzo Vito Gasparo worked under the Works Progress Administration Easel Project during the Great Depression.

During his lifetime he had over 40 one-man shows ranging from 1928 to a retrospective in 1974.

Methods

1. Designer
2. Painting

Mediums

1. Gouache
2. Mixed-Media/Multi-Media
3. Oil
4. Watercolor

Styles

1. Surrealism

Subjects

1. Architecture/Buildings
2. Figure
3. Genre (Human Activity)
4. Spanish Missions
5. Townscape

Exhibitions

1. Art Institute of Chicago
2. Carnegie Institute
3. Corcoran Gallery
4. Museum of Modern Art, New York
5. Pennsylvania Academy
6. Salons of America
7. Society of Independent Artists
8. Whitney Museum of American Art

• Gasparo was an avid dancer and claimed to have brought the rumba to New York.