Stefano Cusamano
STUDIED: The Metropolitan Art School
Cooper Union
Stefano Cusumano was born into a family of Italian heritage in Tampa, Florida. A Ford Foundation Fellow (1963), he taught at his alma mater, Cooper Union. The warm experience of nature recollected underpins his poetic interpretations of ordinary American life. He breathes a mysterious immediacy into his anonymous women and children whose abstracted, gently patterned bodies merge with similarly patterned walkways, staircases and retaining walls. Thus Cusumano evokes the balanced, almost monochromatic serenity of a Mediterranean garden. COLLECTIONS: The Metropolitan Museum of Art The Whitney Museum of American Art The Brooklyn Museum The Newark Museum The Philadelphia Museum of Art The Smithsonian Institution LITERATURE: Regina Soria. American Artists of Italian Heritage, 1776 – 1945, 1993. Peter Hastings Falk. Annual Exhibition Record: Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, 1914 – 19 . Clarke S. Marlor. The Society of Independent Artists: Exhibition Record, 1917 – 1944 Smithsonian Institution. Archives of American Art. Checklist of the Collection D. K-W.
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