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Daniel Celentano

Daniel Ralph Celentano (1902 - 1980) was active/lived in New York.  Daniel Celentano is known for Ethnic figure and genre, crowd scene painting.

Daniel Celentano (1902–1980) was an American Scene artist who made realistic paintings of everyday life in New York, particularly within the Italian neighborhood of East Harlem where he lived. During the Great Depression he painted murals in the same style for the Section of Painting and Sculpture and the Federal Art Project.

The son of Italian immigrants, Daniel Celentano was born into a large family within an Italian neighborhood of Manhattan. A childhood polio attack left him with only partial use of his right leg. Made homebound by this disability he was unable to attend school and, recognizing his artistic skill while he was still a boy, his parents were able to arrange for art teachers to tutor him at home. Through hard work and perseverance he regained control over his leg by the age of twelve and at that time became the first pupil of the social realist painter Thomas Hart Benton.

In 1918 he won scholarships that enabled him to attend Charles Hawthorne's Cape Cod   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 7963 characters.]  Artist bio

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