Castano Galleries (Boston, Mass.)

Dates:
Active 1907
Active 1983

Biographical notes:

Art gallery, Boston, Mass. Founded in 1931 by Giovanni Castano, also known as John Castano.

Castano attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where he was an assistant to Philip Hale. He was a scenic artist for the Boston Opera Company and for the Grand Opera in Cincinnati, Ohio. During the Depression, he returned to Boston where he opened a gallery on Newbury Street specializing in European and American paintings, acted as an agent for Wildenstein and Co., and restored paintings. The gallery had numerous exhibitions of the "Boston School," including A.C. Goodwin, Winslow Homer, Philip Hale, Edmund C. Tarbell, William Paxton and others. The gallery occupied several Newbury St. locations. From 1975 until his death, Castano operated it from his home in Needham.

From the description of Castano Galleries records, 1907-1983. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122515796

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Subjects:

  • Art
  • Art appraisers
  • Art dealers
  • Art galleries, Commercial
  • Gallery owners
  • Painters
  • Restorers
  • Set decorators

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Places:

  • Massachusetts--Boston (as recorded)
  • Massachusetts (as recorded)