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Alfonso A Ossorio

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Alfonso A. Ossorio (1916 - 1990) was active/lived in New York / Philippines.  Alfonso Ossorio is known for Surreal view, assemblages, mural, paintings, sculptor, collage and assemblage.

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 Alfonso Ossorio in his painting showed his predilection for the art brut ("raw art") of the insane, criminals and children espoused by Jean Dubuffet who was a major influence on Ossorio from the age of thirty-three. For him, like many of his contemporaries, rational society, traditional art and existence failed to have meaning, which he sought in the darker avenues of the human spirit and the spontaneous, unpremeditated creations of innocence. Ossorio was also influenced by his friend Jackson Pollock, as well as Salvador Dali and Pablo Picasso.

Ossorio, the son of a wealthy sugar planter, was born in Manila, on the island of Luzon in the Philippines in 1916, becoming an American citizen in 1939. Educated in England and the United States, he studied at Harvard and the Rhode Island School of Design.

Ossorio eventually moved from painting to sculptural assemblage or junk art, utilizing a wide variety of objects including toys, broken glass, skeletons and glass   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 20104 characters.]  Artist bio

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   Publications  Book References:  40
Magazine References:  5

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5 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Alfonso A. Ossorio
Magazine Article Date Author Color
Art in America Obsessive Congregations February 2003 Gilmore, Jonathan Yes
ARTnews Wise Buys August 2002 Kinsella, Eileen Yes
American Art Review Encaustic Art in America December 1999 Stavitsky, Gail Yes
Art in America Review of Exhibitions July 1997 Editors, Art in America Yes
ARTnews Reviews April 1997 Editors, Art News No
40 Book References for Alfonso A. Ossorio
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1991 Hall, Lee Betty Parsons Artist, Dealer, Collector 192 Yes
1989 Naylor, Colin (editor) Contemporary Artists (3rd Edition) 1059 No
1988 Clarke, David J The Influence of Oriental Thought on Postwar American Painting and Sculpture 410 No
1987 Cummings, Paul Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition) 653 No
1987 Cummings, Paul 20th Century Drawings from the Whitney Museum of American Art 176 Yes
1987 Levin, Gail Twentieth Century American Painting Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection 407 Yes
1986 Finch, Christopher American Watercolors 312 Yes
1986 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986 1292 No
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1986 Rose Art Museum Rose Art Museum Selected 20th Century Paintings 147 Yes
1986 Zellman, Michael David 300 Years of American Art (two volumes) 1102 Yes
1985 Lucie-Smith, Edward American Art Now 160 Yes
1984 Cummings, Paul Twentieth Century American Drawin The Figure in Context
(Exhibition catalog)		 144 No
1984 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Dictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to Present 656 No
1982 Contemporary Arts Museum The Americans/The Collage
(Exhibition catalog)		 143 Yes
1982 Messer, Thomas/Arlene Bujese Twenty-Five Artists 108 No
1982 Stebbins, Theodore/G Gorokhoff American Paintings at Yale University: An illustrated Checklist
(Exhibition catalog)		 213 No
1981 Armstrong, Tom Amerikanische Malerei 1930-1980
(Exhibition catalog)		 301 Yes
1981 Osborne, Harold The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Art 656 Yes
1981 Whitney Museum Twentieth Century Drawings Selections from the Whitney 136 No
1980 Kahan, Mitchell Douglas American Painting of the Sixties and Seventies
(Exhibition catalog)		 88 Yes
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 1 (Sculpture, the West etc) 730 No
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics) 736 No
1977 Barr, Alfred H Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art 655 No
1977 Wechsler, Jeffrey Surrealism and American Art 1931-1947
(Exhibition catalog)		 116 Yes
1976 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition 756 No
1976 Milwaukee Art Center From Foreign Shores Three Centuries...Foreign Born American Masters
(Exhibition catalog)		 186 Yes
1975 Editor, Smithsonian Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection 0 No
1975 Mason, Lauris/Joan Ludman Print Reference Sources Bibliography 18th-20th Centuries 246 No
1974 Baur, John I H Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection 235 Yes
1971 Calas, Nicolas and Elena Icons and Images of the Sixties 347 No
1969 Doty, Robert Human Concern/Personal Torment The Grotesque in American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 72 Yes
1968 Rubin, William S Dada, Surrealism and Their Heritage (Museum of Modern Art)
(Exhibition catalog)		 252 No
1965 Friedman, B H Alfonso Ossorio 269 Yes
1965 University of Illinois Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture
(Exhibition catalog)		 210 No
1963 Brandeis University New Directions in American Painting: A Loan Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)		 48 No
1961 Seitz, William C The Art of Assemblage
(Exhibition catalog)		 176 Yes
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