Carlo Pittore Paintings

Carlo Pittore Oil on canvas, 1984, Self Portrait, initialed and dated lower left, slat framed, 21"sqr (frame) 20 X 20 canvas. Provenance: The Private Collection of Wolf Kahn & Emily Mason Carlo Pittore (1943 – 2005) born Charles J. Stanley was an American painter, educator, art activist, and publisher, whose primary study, teaching and body of work was figurative art and portrait painting. He was a pioneer in the Mail Art movement, he corresponded with such mail art luminaries as Buster Cleveland and Ray Johnson. Pittore is noted for opening the first independent art gallery in the East Village, Manhattan. In 1987, Pittore founded "The Academy of Carlo Pittore" in Bowdoinham, Maine. Pittore (née Charles Stanley) was born to Stanford and Estelle Stanley in Queens, New York. He grew up on Long Island, in Port Washington, New York with his sister Marion and brother Elliott. Pittore graduated from Port Washington High School (1961), where he was active in the political and debating scenes. He then went on to graduate from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts (1966), and post graduate from the Brooklyn Museum Art School (1978). Pittore changed his name in the 1970s while studying abroad in Rome, Italy. The children nicknamed him "Carlo Pittore", (”Charles the Painter"). From there he went on to study at the Chelsea College of Arts in London. In 1978, Pittore received the Max Beckmann Scholarship in Advanced Painting. It allowed him to begin studying with American feminist painter Joan Semmel at the Brooklyn Museum Art School. He also studied with visual portrait artist Alice Neel. After which, he taught art at the New York Cultural Foundation. In the 1970s, Pittore and his close friend Bern Porter...

Oil on linen Signed, verso This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City. Carlo Pittore was an internationally renowned artist and community activist who lived and worked in New York City, Italy, and Maine. Over the course of his thirty-year career as a painter, Pittore created a prodigious body of portraits and nudes, contributing a unique vision to the American figurative tradition. Pittore was trained at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston from 1963-1966 and subsequently studied at the Portland School of Art in Maine, and the Chelsea College of Art in London. The artist, née Charles Stanley, changed his name to Carlo Pittore (meaning “Charles the Painter”) while residing in Italy in the early 1970s, where he practiced figurative art in Monticielo and at the Academia di Belle Arte in Rome. As a recipient of the 1977-1978 Max Beckmann Scholarship, Pittore continued his studies under the tutelage of American modernist Joan Semmel...