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Sylvia Spicuzza"City Lights" original pastel drawing by Sylvia Spicuzzaca. 1940
ca. 1940
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Examples like this of Sylvia Spicuzza's work offer a chance to see a musical composition, with repeating curvilinear lines and patters dancing across the image like Jazz music though the air. This is an excellent example of the Art Deco compositions Spicuzza produced, exploring purely abstract, non-representational imagery. In the image, the viewer is presented with colorful, undulating forms reflecting the abstract style of the Art Deco period in the 1920s. In some ways this mirrors the career of Tamara de Lempicka, often called the 'Queen of Art Deco' for her luxurious portraits, who continued to use the same geometricizing modernist aesthetic even as she moved into pure abstraction in the 1950s and '60s.
9.25 x 12 inches, artwork
19.88 x 23 inches, frame
Stamped with artist's signature, lower right
Born in 1908, Sylvia Spicuzza was the daughter of noted painter Francesco Spicuzza. Sylvia devoted herself to teaching art to the students of Lake Bluff Elementary School in Shorewood, WI. During this time Sylvia produced a magnificent body of work that was undiscovered until her death. Sylvia's work is rich, diverse and fascinating collection of drawings, watercolors and prints from the 1920's to the 1990's. Her style ranges from early figurative drawings to regionalism, Art Deco, lyrical abstractions of every conceivable subject (both real and imagined), as well as figurative paintings that reflect the work of Picasso, Kandinsky and Max Ernst in the 1930's and 1940's. Biomorphic and organic, Modernist images are presented with Sylvia Spicuzza's own unique sense of style, humor and fantasy.
- Creator:Sylvia Spicuzza (American)
- Creation Year:ca. 1940
- Dimensions:Height: 19.88 in (50.5 cm)Width: 23 in (58.42 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Milwaukee, WI
- Reference Number:Seller: 5211d1stDibs: LU60535896412
Sylvia Spicuzza
Born in 1908, Sylvia Spicuzza was the daughter of noted painter Francesco Spicuzza. Sylvia devoted herself to teaching art to the students of Lake Bluff Elementary School in Shorewood, WI. During this time Sylvia produced a magnificent body of work that was undiscovered until her death. Sylvia's work is rich, diverse and fascinating collection of drawings, watercolors and prints from the 1920's to the 1990's. Her style ranges from early figurative drawings to regionalism, art deco, lyrical abstractions of every conceivable subject (both real and imagined), as well as figurative paintings that reflect the work of Picasso and Ernest Max in the 1930's and 1940's. Biomorphic and organic, Modernist images are presented with Sylvia Spicuzza's own unique sense of style, humor and fantasy. Exhibitions David Barnett Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin Education Northwestern University, MFA, Illinois
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