american

Oil on canvas (circa 1967) by Peppino Mangravite depicting a nude woman seen through windows styling her hair with flowers blooming outside. A later work of Mangravite, whose 1960s-1970s works are defined by a use of blues, greens, and purples.
Marked ‘Unfinished’ and titled in pencil ‘Woman with Flowers’ on verso. Unsigned.
Peppino Mangravite (1896-1978), an American artist of Italian descent, was an accomplished painter who created deeply poetic / lyrical works largely from observation and personal experience.
Mangravite later served as the Director of the Art Department at Sarah Lawrence and a professor of painting at Columbia University. He was also a prominent art critic whose contributions can be found in countless art journals.

Education: 1914-1917 Cooper Union Art School
1917 Art Students League (mentored by Robert Henri)
Awards include: Gold medal for mural painting at the Philadelphia Sesquicentennial Exhibition, 1926
Guggenheim Fellowships in 1932 and 1935
1938 his work was included in the Venice Biennale in Italy
The American Gold Medal Purchase Prize, Golden Gate Exposition, San Francisco, 1939
Alice McFadden Eyre Medal for best print
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1946
Silver medal for mosaic design, Architectural League of New York, 1955.
Commissions include: U.S. Treasury Department to paint murals for post offices in Hempstead, N.Y. and Atlantic City, N.J. Mural for the Governor’s Mansion in the Virgin Islands Mosaic mural for the main altar of the Workers’ Chapel, St. Anthony’s Shrine, Boston, Mass.

H: 22.1″ x W: 30.25″ x D: .75″