“Shelter Island Studio Yard” 1950’s Oil on canvas 30×35 inch – by August Mosca

Description

 This is a 30 by 35 inch oil painting on canvass entitled Studio Doorway done around the 1950s by New York modernist August Mosca. It depicts the doorway of his studio and his back yard. I have visited the studio and recognize it as his. Moreover there is a Far Gallery label on the back with the title and details. It is in excellent condition and comes as framed by the artist. The photos tell the story.

   August Mosca was born in Naples, Italy on August 19, 1909. He and his family emigrated to the United States in 1911. He attended Yale School of Fine Arts in 1924 -1926, before moving to New York City where he attended Pratt Institute (1929). While living in his studio on Sixth Avenue and West Fourth Street in 1931, he studied at the Art Students League with Harry Wickey.

     In 1932, he studied at Grand Central Art School and made his first trip to study in Italy. After meeting Joseph Stella in 1937, Stella introduced him to the silverpoint medium which he perfected throughout his life.With the encouragement of Stella , Mosca developed his own approach to painting the city, urban life and the subways and trains of New York.

1939 saw the completion of Mr. Mosca s first paintings of New York City bridges and subways. He received the California Palace Legion of Honor Medal and Took part in Metropolitan Museum of Artexhibition Portrait of America during the mid-1940s.

His first solo exhibit was at Salpeter Gallery in New York City, where he showed annually from 1959 through 1969 and 1961 marked a one man show at Guild Hall in East Hampton, New York. Butler Institute of American Art, Library of Congress, and Brooklyn Museum (two silverpoint drawings) acquired his work during that time.

    During the 1970s, Mosca had solo exhibits at New York Cultural Center, Fordham University, and FAR Gallery (NYC). His work was acquired by Grey Collection of New York University, Parrish Art Museum (Southampton, NY), and New York Public Library. He received the President s Award in the Audubon Annual, the Barney Paiser Award, and the Purchase Prize in the Society of American Graphics Artists Annual. In 1978, the Association of American Artists commissioned two lithographs.

In 1987, East End Arts Council held a one man exhibition of silverpoint drawings and produced a cable television show in conjunction with the exhibit. He participated in Impressionism and Post-Impressionism and New York: Empire City in the Age of Urbanism 1875 – 1945 exhibits, in 1988, at Grand Central Art Galleries, followed by August Mosca, A Fifty Year Retrospective Exhibit in 1990.

   It will be shipped for $120 via UPS insured.