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Vincent Spagna

Vincent Spagna (1897 - 1994) was active/lived in New York, Connecticut / Italy.  Vincent Spagna is known for Expressive portrait, city scenes and figure in landscape painting.

Vincent Spagna1897-1994
Noted New York and CT artist was in his prime in the mid 20th century and was friends with and exhibited with many of the now famous artists. He roomed for a time with Milton Avery, and Avery created a portrait of him in 1937.
He is remembered for his portraits done in a modernist expressive style.He also painted city scenes and figural landscape pieces with a similar modern technique.
Following is his 1994 New York Times obituary.

Vincent Spagna, a painter, died on Thursday at his home in Manhattan. He was 96.
He died after a long illness, family members said.
Mr. Spagna was born in Sicily in 1897 and moved to the United States in 1911. His family settled in Hartford, where he studied at the Connecticut League of Art Students.

He had several exhibitions at the Midtown Galleries in the 1940's. In 1944, his landscape New England Barn won a prize in the "Portrait of America" competition sponsored by Pepsico.

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