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Louis (Luigi) Bosa

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.

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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   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 6154 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Louis (Luigi) Bosa

   Publications  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 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
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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