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Gregorio Prestopino
American painter
Gregorio Prestopino (–) 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".[1]
Biography
Prestopino was born in New York City's Little Italy.
He was the second of three children born to Antonino Prestopino (–) and Letteria Rando (–), immigrants from Messina, Sicily, Italy.
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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.
He won the Rome Prize.[citation needed]
Variation of style and the influence of the MacDowell Colony
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