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THBLouis Bosa (1905-1981) Italian/American, Humorous Nuns Oil on Board
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522 South Pineapple Avenue
Sarasota, FL 34236
United States
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Louis Bosa (1905-1981) Italian/American, Humorous Nuns Oil on Board. Shows a convent of five nuns in full wimples skiing down a hillside in Bosa's Social Realist-influenced style. Signed bottom right. Personal inscription on back of frame. Informative label from the Frank Oehlschlaeger Gallery on back of the board.
Overall Size: 15 x 19 in.
Sight Size: 7 x 11 in.
#8648
Louis Bosa was born in 1905 in a small town near Venice, Italy. He showed early art talent and interest, and began to do figure paintings, using his family as models, by the age of ten. When he was fifteen years old he enrolled in Venice at the Academia delle Belle Arti, but in 1923 his family helped him emigrate to Hamilton, Canada where his brother had preceded him and was working in a steel mill. Unhappy with becoming a steel worker as his family wanted, Bosa ran away to Buffalo, New York, to live with his aunt and uncle. While there he met Theresa Krakowska, and the couple moved to New York City to pursue art together, marrying in 1926. He worked a number of odd jobs while taking night classes at the Art Students League, and his style became heavily influenced by the work of the director, the Social Realist painter John Sloan. The 1930s were very difficult for the couple, and many of his paintings reflect laboring workers and idle hobos in depressed, muted tones and striking lines. In 1938 he won the first award that brought him some attention, the John Wanamaker Prize, at an outdoor exhibition in Washington Square. He was awarded the Altman Prize at the National Academy of Design in 1939, but he was disqualified when it was discovered that he was not American-born. Throughout World War II he remained apolitical, and his style tended to eschew growing modernist influences, particularly Abstract Expressionism. His humanist ideals and humorous nature, coupled with the quirky and often irreverent subject matter he began to showcase, garnered him less attention than the more “serious” avant garde artists around him, but he remained devoted to following his own path, rather than copying his more successful peers. His first major accolades came in 1944 when he won a $1500 prize for painting from the Pepsi-Cola Company, and soon after he was designing product endorsements for Grumbacher paints. The family was finally doing well enough that Bosa could afford a summer home in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where he began to explore sculpture. In 1944 he was offered a teaching position at the League, and simultaneously taught summer classes in Rockport, Massachusetts. He began exhibiting regularly at the Kleeman and Milch Galleries, and in 1951 he was offered an assignment by Life Magazine to travel to his hometown in Italy to paint the local people. In 1959 he became an instructor of painting at the Cleveland Institute of Art, and his home studio in Bucks County became an artists retreat where his pupils frequently came to learn and create in a conducive, less academic environment. In the late 1960s he began to suffer multiple health issues, developing bladder cancer and sinking into dementia by the mid 70s. He passed away at a hospital in Doylestown, Pennsylvania on October 19th, 1981, and today most of his works are in private collections throughout New England and the Midwest.
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15 x 19 in.
