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| | Mastro-Valerio, Alessandro | (Italian, 1889-1953) |
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| | Born in 1889, Alessandro Mastro Valerio was educated at the Salvador Rosa Institute in Naples, Italy from 1906-1912 before moving to Chicago, Illinois in 1913. After working briefly as a commercial artist, he opened up his own portrait studio in the Loop area of downtown Chicago. At this time some of his patrons included Harvey S. Firestone and Anheuser Busch. He moved to Ypsilanti, Michigan in 1919 in order to work on a commissioned mural for the Ypsilanti National Bank. In the summers of 1922 and 1923 he taught at Ypsilanti Normal College (now known as Eastern Michigan University). He also taught at the University of Michigan starting in 1924 until his retirement in 1952, only to pass away the next year. Although he is most famous for his mezzotints, a medium that he helped to revive in the U.S., he also painted in oil and watercolor, and his subjects vary greatly from portraits, nudes, landscapes, and seascapes. His works are housed in collections across the United States including the Dallas Museum of Art, in Texas, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, California, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, in Washington D.C. |
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