biografía de Concetta Maria SCARAVAGLIONE (1900-1975)

Lugar de nacimiento: NYC

Lugar de defunción: Bronx, NY

Direcciones: NYC

Profesión: Sculptor, teacher

Estudios: NAD with Frederick Roth, 1917-18; ASL with Boardman Robinson & John Sloan; Master Inst. with Robert Laurent. Awarded Prix de Rome to study at the Am. Acad. Rome, 1947-50

Exposiciones: Salons of Am.; NAD; WMAA, 1926-58; PAFA Ann., 1934-66 (gold, 1934); Sculptors Gld, 1938 (Girl with Gazelle," a critical and popular success); WFNY, 1939 ("Woman with Mountain Sheep" for the garden court of the Fed. Bldg.); VMFA, 1941 (first solo show); MoMA, 1959; BM; AIC; Kraushaar Gals., NYC, 1950-70s"

Asociaciones: NSS; Sculptors Gld.; An Am. group. Awards: Am. Arts & Letters grant, 1946

Obra: WMAA; MoMA; NMAA; Roerich Mus.; PAFA; Glasgow Mus. Commissions: Railway Mail Carrier," Main Post Office, Wash., DC (1936) and "Agriculture," limestone bas-reliefs on the Fed. Trade Comn. bldg., Wash., DC (1937); wood relief,"Aborigines," Post Office, Drexel Hill, Pa, 1939; "Girl With Gazelle" (original shown at Sculptors Gld. 1938 exh.), several high schools, New York."

Comentarios: From 1935-39 she received a number of important government commissions for the Treasury Dept. Section of Painting and Sculpture. Began working in welded metal with Theodore Roszack in 1946. As her career developed, her sculpture became more abstract. Scaravaglione also had a long teaching career: Educational Alliance, 1925-; NY Univ.; Sarah Lawrence College; Black Mountain College; Vassar College, 1952-67. Preferred media: wood, stone, bronze, copper, terra-cotta.

Fuentes: WW73; WW47; Rubinstein, American Women Artists, 255-57 (w/repros.); Falk, Exh. Record Series.