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Giorgio Cavallon, artist
American, 1904--1989
Untitled (Abstract), fromThe American Abstract Artists Portfolio: Exhibition April 3-17, 1937, 1937
black and white offset lithograph
Sheet: 305 x 235 mm (12 x 9 1/4 in.)
Museum purchase, Harriett and Maurice Gregg American Abstract Art Fund 2001.86.7

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printer, Cane Press

Artist Biography: WHEN HE WAS SIXTEEN, CAVALLON IMMIGRATED TO THE UNITED STATES FROM SORIO, a small town in the province of Vicenza, Italy. He worked for several years in a factory in Massachusetts while studying art privately, and in 1926, he went to New York.[1] During night sessions at the National Academy of Design, Cavallon took the antique class and worked from casts. After five years at the academy, he left his daytime work as a carpenter and began full-time study for six months. There he met Ilya Bolotowsky, Lee Krasner, Byron Browne, and others. He spent two summers in Provincetown studying with Charles Hawthorne, who taught him to put aside drawing and instead work directly with color. PROVENANCE: Hananiah Marari collection, AAA artist Private Collection

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