AUGUST MOSCA
"STRAPHANGERS #2"
OIL ON CANVAS LAID DOWN ON BOARD, SIGNED
AMERICAN, 1938
30 X 10 INCHES
FRAMED 37 X 16.5 INCHES
August
Mosca
He immigrated to the United States with his family in 1911. Mosca studied at Yale University from 1924-26. He then attended Pratt Institute, Grand Central School and the Art Students League in New York City, where he studied with Harry Wickey. Though he was a matriculated student at these schools, Mosca never actually completed any degrees. He also traveled to Italy where he studied the works of some of the great Italian Renaissance masters, including Raphael, Leonardo, Signorelli, and Michaelangelo.
As well as being a working painter, Mosca taught art at the Pratt Institute, Cooper Union, Art Students League, and in Tuxedo Park. Mosca’s first one-man show was held at the Harry Salpeter Gallery in New York in 1959, where he showed annually until 1969. Later the FAR Gallery handled him exclusively for six years; he was given a one-man exhibition every year. Other one-man exhibitions were held at the Guild Hall in East Hampton, in New Haven, Connecticut, and in Newark, New Jersey. In 1990 the prestigious Grand Central Gallery in New York held a 50 year retrospective of Mosca’s drawings and paintings. In 1997 the ACA Gallery in New York held a one-man show titled “August Mosca Paints New York.” He was included in the “Living Legends” exhibition at the Millennium Gallery in East Hampton. He also exhibited in the Red Barn Atelier and the Elaine Benson Gallery both in Southhampton, as well as the Linda Fishetti Gallery in Southhold. His work was included in the Metropolitan Museum’s “Portrait of America” exhibition, and in the Museum of Modern Art.
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