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Gregorio Prestopino was born on 21 June, 1907 in New York City, is an American painter. Discover Gregorio Prestopino's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 77 years old?

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Age 77 years old
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born 21 June, 1907
Birthday 21 June
Birthplace New York City
Date of death 19 December, 1984
Died Place Princeton, New Jersey
Nationality United States

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1877

He was the second of three children born to Antonino Prestopino (1877–1937) and Letteria Rando (1866–1962), immigrants from Messina, Sicily, Italy.

At the age of 14 he was awarded a scholarship to the National Academy of Design, with Charles Hawthorne.

Early in his career he came under the influence of the French Impressionists, but was soon drawn to the American realists of the Ashcan School painters, whose work led him directly to the study of urban life.

1907

Gregorio Prestopino (1907–1984) was an American artist.

According to the art historian Irma B. Jaffe, he was "one of the major American painters who refused to reject the image, [and] has devoted his career to depicting the human condition with a warmth tempered only by honesty".

Prestopino was born in New York City's Little Italy.

1930

During the 1930s his social realist paintings had an anecdotal quality in their description of everyday incidents of the working class, depicting the grit of city life – docks, laborers, vendors, Lower East Side streets.

1940

By the mid-1940s and the 1950s he concentrated on large, solid images that were able to function as universals with heightened drama while preserving their qualities as specific expressionistic images.

His more realistic studies are largely black and white and detail poor urban suffering.

1949

He moved to Roosevelt, New Jersey in 1949.

1950

In the late 1950s Prestopino used Harlem as his subject.

He created paintings that inspired the well-known American movie makers, John Hubley and Faith Elliot.

During the filming they never took the camera off the paintings.

The film, "Harlem Wednesday", with a jazz score by Benny Carter, won first prize at the First International Festival of Art Film in Venice.

1954

In 1954, he became a director of the MacDowell Colony, beginning a lifelong association that profoundly influenced his art.

In the MacDowell Colony he made friends with the painters Milton Avery, Sally Avery, Giorgio Cavllon, Linda Lindeberg and many others who were among the Fellows of MacDowell Colony.

1957

Exemplifying this style is the series of paintings done in 1957 for "Life" magazine in connection with an article on Green Haven, a New York state prison.

During this time Prestopino received high recognition along with Ben Shahn and Philip Evergood, well-known social realist painters.

1958

In 1958 Prestopino's landscape paintings were showing abstract tendencies.

There is a noticeable cubist influence in his work as well.

Much of his more cubist work uses brightly contrasting colors and involves human forms.

Wet, sensuous color areas appeared on his canvases.

Mythological figures, woods, brooks, fields, islands, mountains were joined-on powerful canvases that showed Prestopino's new vitality.

According to the celebrated photographer Russel Lynes "the sound of the city…gave way to The Sounds of the country, the relentless of bricks and pavement and steel to the happy disorder of dappled things."

1960

A series of Gregorio Prestopino paintings entitled "Harlem Wednesday" toured the US in the 1960s.

A watercolor painting from that series entitled, "The Family" is held by the Art and Artifacts Division of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

1972

He won the 1972 Rome Prize.

As a young man Prestopino set up his first studio in Harlem.