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Salvatore Scarpitta

Salvatore Scarpitta (1919 - 2007) was active/lived in New York / Italy.  Salvatore Scarpitta is known for Sculpture-pop objects, cars, machines.

Painter-sculptor Salvatore Scarpitta was an artist with wide-ranging modernist expression that included wrapped canvases symbolizing death and survival and sculptures of cars and sleds as a metaphor for travel.  He was born in 1919 in Manhattan, and was raised in Los Angeles, where his Italian-born father, was commissioned to do the bas-relief sculptures on the Los Angeles Stock Exchange Building.  His mother was a part-time actress.

Scarpitta graduated from Hollywood High School, and then went to Italy where from 1936-1958, he lived in Rome, and graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts.  He was in the U.S. Navy during World War II, and served as a "monuments man", meaning he was part of a multi-national effort to find, catalog and rescue fine art stolen by the Nazis from individual and national collections and also identify monuments and historical sites so that Allies could be alerted to avoid them.  After the war, he remained in Italy until   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 4361 characters.]  Artist bio

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