Creator Record
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Name |
Carini, Antonio Bartolomeo |
Role |
Artist |
Other Names |
A. Carini Tony Carini Carini ABC |
Dates & Places of Birth and Death |
b. 03/15/1903 Rome, Italy d. 06/04/1967 Billings, MT |
Nationality |
American |
Education |
B.F.A. University of Minnesota - Duluth 1930 M.F.A. University of Montana 1934 |
Titles & Honors |
Taught art at Rocky Mountain College at Billings, Montana from 1946 through 1961. |
Occupation |
Artist, Educator |
Publications |
1951. Art is Life: The WPA Artists Project. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1962. The Trained Eye: A Painter's Guide to Painting. New York: Govenor House Publishing Company. |
Places of Residence |
Carini was employed during the Great Depression by the WPA Artists Project. He was a portraitist. His most famous works are small portraits of government officials displayed in public buildings throughout the Western United States. Many of his works were lost when the WPA sold its holdings in ithe mid-1940's. Carini served in the army during WWII. At the conclusion of the war he became a professor of art at Rocky Mountain College. |
Relationships |
Carini was a student of Thomas Hart Benton (American Regionalist Painter, 1889-1975) |
Notes |
Antonio Carini's parents emigrated to the United States from Italy in 1905. They lived and worked in Chicago, Illinois. Claudio Carini, the artist's father, owned and operated a grocery store on S. Wabash Ave. from 1911 to 1938. Antonio was the second of six children. |
