![]() YE PIPE AND BOWL Signed Lithograph Old Tavern Sign Painter American. Two years later his watercolour, Maine Islands. Piece measures 19 x 15 inches and is framed. In the same year at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts he exhibited The Negress. In 1934 Calapai turned to printmaking almost exclusively and exhibited three works at Salons of America: Eleanora, Odalisque and Portrait. ![]() Calapai became a member of the National Society of Mural Painters, the Atelier 17 Group of Northwest Printmakers, the Springfield, Massachusetts Art League and the Baltimore Watercolour Club, as well a the Society of American Graphic Artists. In addition, he enrolled in the Art Students League in New York and named the following as his private teachers: Ben Shahn, Robert Laurent and Charles Hopkinson. The outstanding printmaker Letterio Calapai (1902-1993) was born in Boston where he undertook basic art studies. Signed, titled and annotated 'artist's proof' and inscribed 'To Angelo Pastor with admiration' LC in pencil. "Labour in a Diesel Plant" Machine Age American Scene Industrial Mid 20th Century
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