Antonio Salemme

Antonio Salemme
BornNovember 2, 1892
Gaeta, Italy
DiedMay 2, 1995(1995-05-02) (aged 102)
Williams Township, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Occupation(s)American sculptor and painter

Antonio Salemme (November 2, 1892 − May 2, 1995) was an Italian-born American sculptor and painter. His work included sculpted portraits of John F. Kennedy, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Albert Einstein, Paul Robeson, Ethel Waters, and classical nudes.

Early life and education

Salemme was born on November 2, 1892, in Gaeta, Italy. Following the death of his mother in 1904, he emigrated to Boston with his father, where he began studying art at the age of 14. In 1912, a benefactor assisted him in returning to Italy to study sculpture in Rome.

Career

World War I

After studying in Boston and Rome, Salemme served in the Italian Army during World War I.

Greenwich Village

After the war's conclusion, Salemme returned to the United States, where he settled in New York City and became involved in the Greenwich Village cultural scene of the 1920s and 1930s.

Sculpture and portraits

In 1924, he attended a performance of The Emperor Jones, starring Paul Robeson. Salemme subsequently asked the actor to model for him. The finished work, "Negro Spiritual", was displayed at the Brooklyn Museum and other fine art institutions. The sculpture later voyaged to a foundry in France to be cast in bronze, but was lost during World War II.

Three of his portraits, those of Robeson, Ethel Waters, and Arctic explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson, are on display at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. Salemme's portrait of John F. Kennedy is on display at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston. Salemme's life-size nude of Paul Robeson in 1926, Negro Spiritual, was exhibited to acclaim in New York City, Chicago, San Francisco, and Paris, and became a cause celebré when it was banned from an exhibition in Philadelphia in 1930.

In the 1930s, Salemme worked as a director in the Works Progress Administration. He was the recipient of two Guggenheim Fellowships in 1932 and 1936. In the 1940s, he became increasingly interested in painting, which he had studied as a teenager. Salemme's annual summer visits to Rockport, Massachusetts resulted in several post-Impressionist-inspired sea and landscapes.

After a 43-year career in New York City, Salemme and his wife Martha returned to the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania in 1962. In the 1980s, he and his wife Martha set up the Antonio Salemme Foundation in Allentown, Pennsylvania, as an initial step towards the founding of a museum to permanently house the artist's work.[1]

In 2013, an Italian historical society published a selection of Salemme's letters and photographs from his military service in World War I. The artist's work was the subject of a retrospective exhibition at the Sigal Museum in Easton, Pennsylvania in 2014.[2][3][4]

Working from memory and imagination, and inspired by Hindu philosophy and his devoted practice of Zen Buddhist meditation, Salemme painted and sculpted almost up until his death at age 102.

Death

Salemme died on May 2, 1995, in Williams Township, Pennsylvania at the age of 102.[5]

References

  1. ^ "Antonio Salemme Foundation". antoniosalemme.org. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2015-09-20.
  2. ^ "Antonio Salemme, 102, Painter And Sculptor of Robeson Nude". nytimes.com. Retrieved 2015-09-20.
  3. ^ Soria, Regina (1993). American Artists of Italian Heritage, 1776-1945. Cranbury, New Jersey: Associated University Presses. pp. 158–161. ISBN 0-8386-3425-7.
  4. ^ Skrapits, Joseph (March–April 2014). "A Passion for Portraits". Fine Art Connoisseur: 46–52.
  5. ^ Skrapits, Joseph (November 1985). "Exile's Return". Philadelphia Magazine. 76 (11): 143–154.

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