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Artist: Emanuel Glicenstein Romano
Price: $2,668.00
Medium: Painting
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Materials: oil
Dimensions: 30" x 34" x 1"
Finish: Unframed
About the Item: A burst of pure delight in primary colors, by a notable artist who's been exhibited at many of America's most important museums. It was painted during the mid-century resurgence of cubism, and has that (now) highly sought-after mid-century feel integrated with the "classic" look of early 20th-century art. Glicenstein Romano's work has been exhibited at, and in many cases is in the collections of, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Musee Nacional de France, The Whitney, the Met, and so on. Signed lower right. Comes pre-framed in an elaborate wooden frame. 30" x 33.5" with frame. 21" x 24" without frame.

The following is information about the artist as it appears in the AskArt database:

"Born in Rome, Italy, Emanuel Romano became a painter, illustrator, muralist and teacher in New York City where from 1944 to 1945 he taught at the City College of New York. One of his murals is in the Klondike Building, Welfare Island, New York.

He studied in Switzerland and exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and in 1940 at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Source:
Peter Falk, "Who Was Who in American Art"
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The following, submitted May 2005, is from Kenneth Arthur who has researched the artist. He write: "I have additional information on exhibits and museum holdings. This information was gathered for an exhibit in Florida of over 300 of Emanuel
Romano's works.

Museum Collections: Boston Museum of Fine Art; Detroit Museum; New London Museum; Fogg Museum of Art; Musees Natioaux De France.

Exhibitions: 1909- Munich- Drawings;1920- Rome- Bragalia- paintings;1930-
New York- Murai Gallery- paintings;1931- Boston- Goodman-Walker Galleries-
paintings; 1932- New York- S.P.R. Galleries- paintings;1940- New York- Marie
Sterner Galleries- paintings;1942- New York- Lilienfeld Galleries-
paintings;1932- New York- Feigl Gallery- paintings;1932- New York- Chinese
Gallery- paintings; 1947- New York- Cambridge Galleries- paintings;1951- New
York- Pasaeddoit Gallery- Paintings;1955- Paris- Katia Granoff Gallery-
paintings;1961- New York- Rothschild Gallery- paintings;1965- New York- City
College- drawings & watercolors;1968- New York- Gotham Book Gallery-
portraits;1969- Vestart Gallery- paintings;1976- Tel Aviv- Lim Galleries-
paintings.

He also exhibited at: The Whitney Museum; The Society of Independent Artists; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts; The Art Institute of Chicago.

Biography from Papillon Gallery

Emanuel Glicen Romano
1897-1984

Born in Rome, Italy, Emanuel Romano became a painter, illustrator, muralist and teacher in New York City where from 1944 to 1945 he taught at the City College of New York.

In 1936 Romano worked designing and painting murals for the WPA, one of his murals is in the Klondike Building, Welfare Island, New York, another of these works is in the Florida Holocaust Museum in St. Petersburg Florida.

He studied in Switzerland and exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and in 1940 at the Art Institute of Chicago.

He moved to Safed in Israel in 1953 to set up a museum in his father's memory.

Museum Collections: Boston Museum of Fine Art; Detroit Museum; New London Museum; Fogg Museum of Art; Musees Natioaux De France.

Exhibitions:

1909- Munich- Drawings;
1920- Rome- Bragalia- paintings;
1930-New York- Murai Gallery- paintings
1931- Boston- Goodman-Walker Galleries-paintings
1932- New York- S.P.R. Galleries- paintings
1940- New York- Marie Sterner Galleries- paintings
1942- New York- Lilienfeld Galleries-paintings
1932- New York- Feigl Gallery- paintings
1932- New York- Chinese Gallery- paintings
1947- New York- Cambridge Galleries- paintings
1951- NewYork- Pasaeddoit Gallery- Paintings
1955- Paris- Katia Granoff Gallery-paintings
1961- New York- Rothschild Gallery- paintings
1965- New York- City College- drawings & watercolors
1968- New York- Gotham Book Gallery-portraits
1969- Vestart Gallery- paintings
1976- Tel Aviv- Lim Galleries-paintings

He also exhibited at: The Whitney Museum; The Society of Independent Artists; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts; The Art Institute of Chicago."