Artwork Record
Images
Metadata
Artist |
Alexander Russo (1922-2021) |
Title |
Italian Landscape |
Date |
1953 |
Medium |
Pring on paper |
Dimensions |
13 x 9 in. |
Description |
Alex Russo was born in Atlantic City, NJ, and studied art at Pratt Institute. During World War ll he served in the US Navy as an artist saw action in Italy and England, and participated in the D-Day Invasion. A number of his sketches illustrate his 2013 memoir, Combat Artist: A Journal of Love and War. After the war Russo spent two years at Bard College before receiving his BFA from Columbia University. He was awarded Guggenheim Fellowships in 1947 and 1949. In 1952-53, a Fullbright Fellowship enabled him to study in Rome. While there he created this monotype loosely based on bridges or aqueducts he observed in the Italian landscape. Five years after returning to the US, he bought a house on Springs-Fireplace Road, next door to Lee Krasner, and stayed a close friend of hers after moving to another East Hampton home. Russo was on the faculty of the University of Buffalo, Parsons School of Design, and the Corcoran School of Art, where he taught from 1961-1969. From 1970 until his retirement in 1990 he taught at Hood Colllege in Frederick, Maryland. His works are in the collections of the Buffalo AKG Museum, the Academy of Arts and Letters in New York City, the Corcoran Collection at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, the Smithsonian American Art Museum and many others. Gift of Marion Wolberg Weiss. |
Catalog Number |
2023.2 |
Object Name |
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Current Exhibition |
Crosscurrents: Selections from the Permanent Collection |