Anthony Padovano, Untitled Abstract Expressionist drawing, 1971

Anthony Padovano

Untitled Abstract Expressionist drawing, 1971

Ink wash on paper drawing

Signed and dated in ink wash

Unique

Frame included

Original (unique) signed Abstract Expressionist ink wash drawing on paper by National Academician Anthony Padovano - art professor at Columbia University and Sarah Lawrence, and winner of the Prix de Rome and Guggenheim fellowships. This work was originally acquired from the Graham Gallery in New York.
Measurements:
Framed
24.5 by 30 by 1.5
Artwork:
18 by 22
Anthony Padovano Biography
Anthony Padovano attended Columbia University and graduated with honors in art. He went into the United States Army after graduation for 2 years and one of those years was spent in the Pentagon. After his service he relocated to a fellowship to Rome, Italy called The Prix de Rome in 1960 and also where his first son Roberto was born. After returning to the US in 1960, he started teaching at the University of Connecticut, where he taught for 2 years and was eventually offered to teach at Columbia University for which he did for 6 years. After years of teaching at two universities, he also taught at Sarah Lawrence College for 4 years. With a lengthy teaching resume he was offered and accepted a leading position at Kingsborough College in 1978. Simultaneously between all these years from 1962-2010 he also taught at School of Visual Arts, Art Students League, Parsons School of Design, Queens College and the United Nations Fulbright Judge for Sculpture and at some point became the president of the Audubon Society in Manhattan for 4 years, once his term had ended he remained at Kingsborough until his retirement in 2010.During all these years he continued to create sculptures and other pieces of art such as a sculpture of Christopher Columbus that still stands today in Mahopac, NY and various other sculptures and paintings that have appeared and still reside in people's homes and galleries even today and has won a myriad of accolades and awards from various artistic institutions. He even with much encouragement from his students published a book in 1981 called The Process of Sculpture, where he details every aspect of the sculpting process and illustrates all the tools a contemporary artist will need.