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Louis (Luigi) Bosa
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Louis (Luigi) Bosa (1905 - 1981) was active/lived in New York, Pennsylvania / Italy. Louis Bosa is known for Modernist genre, figure, landscape, portrait painting, teaching.
Born in a small town near Venice, Italy, Louis Bosa became a genre, figure, and landscape painter who exhibited widely, and was also a much-respected art teacher. Amidst the growing trends of modernism, especially Abstract Expressionism, he kept to his own unique style of apolitical, witty character studies and subjects of humor and human pathos. For art historians, his work has been difficult to categorize, which has led to him getting less attention than many of his contemporaries, especially those who had sophisticated public-relations machines. Also, he was such a unique character---ever telling jokes and far-fetched stories---that the focus on him tended to be on his quirky personality rather than the seriousness of his art.
Bosa showed early art talent and interest, and began to do figure paintings, using his family as models, by the age of ten. When he was fifteen years old, he enrolled in Venice at the Academia delle Belle ...
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Book References: 31
Magazine References: 3
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3 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Louis (Luigi) Bosa
Magazine
Article
Date
Author
Color
American Art Review
Louis Bosa: A Keen Eye and a Kind Heart
December 2005
Knight, Cher Krause
Yes
American Art Review
Phillips' Mill: 75 Years of Art
June 2005
Jaeger-Smith, Erica
Yes
American Art Review
The Politics of Power in Cleveland
April 2004
Berardi & Bedford
No
31 Book References for Louis (Luigi) Bosa
Year
Author
Title
Pages
Color
2009
Katlan, Alexander W.
Salmagundi Club Painting Exhibition Records 1940-1951 and Water Color Exhibition Records 1900-1951
623
No
2005
Alterman, James M.
New Hope for American Art A Comprehensive Showing of Important 20th Century Paintings from and Surrounding the New Hope Art Colony
612
Yes
2005
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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
1999
Steiner, Raymond J
The Art Students League of New York A History (Teachers)
0
No
1993
Soria, Regina
American Artists of Italian Heritage/1776-1945
178
No
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings
Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950
(Exhibition catalog)
622
No
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)
1117
No
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)
538
No
1989
Fresella-Lee, Nancy
The American Paintings (in the) Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art
222
Yes
1988
Falk, Peter Hastings
Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram
556
No
1987
Cummings, Paul
Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition)
653
No
1987
Feldman, Edmund Burke
Varieties of Visual Experience (3rd edition)
528
Yes
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
707
No
1981
Wooden, Howard E. (Text)
The Neglected Generation of American Realist Painters, 1930-48 Wichita Art Museum Exhibition, May 3-June 14, 1981
(Exhibition catalog)
64
Yes
1979
Brooklyn Museum
American Paintings/Brooklyn Museum Complete Illustrated Listing of Works
133
Yes
1977
Gamble, Kathryn (Foreward); Thomas Hoving, William Gerdts, Lloyd Goodrich
The American Painting Collection of the Montclair Art Museum
268
Yes
1976
Jaques Cattell Press
Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition
756
No
1975
Chambers, Bruce W
American Paintings in the High Museum of Art/Bicentenial Catalogue
127
Yes
1974
Baur, John I H
Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection
235
Yes
1968
Kent, Norman (editor)
Drawings by American Artists
127
No
1954
Clark, Eliot
History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953
296
No
1950
Metropolitan Museum of Art
American Painting Today 1950 A National Competitive Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)
60
No
1950
Watson, Ernest W
Twenty Painters and How They Work
158
Yes
1947
Editor
Collectors of American Art, Inc. Annual Bulletin, Vol. XI, December 1947
(Exhibition catalog)
25
No
1946
Gruskin, Alan D
Painting in the U S A
223
Yes
1946
Pagano, Grace; Donald Bear (Intro)
Contemporary American Painting
260
Yes
1945
Crane, Aimee
Portrait of America
204
Yes
1944
The Art Institute of Chicago
The Fifty-fifth Annual American Exhibition: Water Colors and Drawings
(Exhibition catalog)
22
No
1935
Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index
1130
No
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