SALVATORE PINTO (1905--1966)Italian-born Salvatore Pinto arrived in Philadelphia as a small child in 1909. In the early 1920s he studied at the Philadelphia Museum and School of Industrial Art (now the University of Arts). In 1925 and 26 he attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and in 1927 began taking classes at the Barnes Foundation, in Merion, Pennsylvania, eventually teaching there as well. Dr. Albert C. Barnes took an interest in the work of Salvatore and his artist-brothers Angelo and Biagio. Scholarships from the Barnes Foundation allowed the Pintos to travel to the south of France, where they worked with Pierre Matisse in the early 1930s. In the mid-1930s he made prints at the Philadelphia WPA Printmaking Workshop and also made stage and costume designs. The Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, held a retrospective of the Salvatore Pinto's work in 2012. In addition to the institutions mentioned above his work is in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
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