Daniel Celentano (1902 – 1980)
Going to the Festival
14 1/2 x 10 1/2
Watercolor on paper, c. 1930s
Signed lower left

BIO:
Daniel Celentano at the age of twelve was Thomas Hart Benton’s first and youngest student. Celentano often focused on the Italian neighborhood of New York City where he was born and raised as the subject matter of his drawings, paintings and murals. He enjoyed an active career, exhibiting at all the major museums as an accomplished American Scene painter during the WPA and WWII era. His first one-man show was held in 1939 at the Walker Art Galleries. At the start of WWII, Celentano went to work at the Grumman Aircraft Plant, where he executed a mural on The Story of Flight. Studied: Thomas Hart Benton, 1914 (at age 12) Cape Cod School of Art with Charles Hawthorne, 1918 New York School of Fine And Applied Art with Howard Giles National Academy of Design Parsons School of Design Ivan Olinsky Exhibitions and Awards: Alfred Stieglitz’s Opportunity Gallery, New York City, 1930 American Museum of Natural History, New York City, 1933 Nassau County Art League, 1934 (prize) Brooklyn Museum, 1935 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1936-42 Art Institute of Chicago, 1936-38, 1942 Carnegie Institute, 1936-37, 1943 Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1937, 1939 Detroit Institute of Art, 1937 Syracuse University, 1937 Dayton Art Institute, 1939 Whitney Museum of American Art, 1937, 1940-41 Golden Gate Exposition, San Francisco, 1939 Walker Art Center, 1936-37, 1938 (solo), 1939 Ferargil Gallery, 1935, 1939 (solo) Parsons School of Design (New York City WPA Art), 1977 Hofstra University, 1978 Boston University, 1983 Rhode Island School of Design, 1991 Collections/work: Whitney Museum of American Art National Museum of American Art High Museum, Atlanta, Georgia Murals: Cradle of Aviation Museum (Grunman Aircraft Mural), 1940s; Flushing (New York) Library, 1936; P.S. No.150, Sunnyside, Long Island, New York; U.S. post office Vadalia, Georgia, 1938

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