Letterio Calapai papers

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Letterio Calapai papers

1858, 1870, 1900-1993

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The papers of Italian-American painter, engraver, and printmaker Letterio Calapai measure 3.4 linear feet and date from 1858 through 1993 (bulk 1920s-1993). Found are correspondence, teaching and project files, writings and notes, printed materials, photographs, and sketchbooks, including one with scenes of Rockwell Kent's dairy farm in upstate New York. Calapai's teaching career is documented through correspondence, writings and notes, as well as files concerning his position at the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Maine. Projects files are found for Calapai's reprint of an 1845 engraving of <emph render="italic">The Capture of Major Andre</emph> by Asher B. Durand for the Historical Society of the Tarrytowns, New York, reprints of print originals by Thomas Bewick, the <emph render="italic">Look Homeward Angel</emph> engravings, and a possible exhibition and book about British engraver William Hogarth.

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Calapai, Letterio, 1902-1993

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Painter, engraver, printmaker, and educator; Buffalo and New York, N.Y. and Chicago, Ill. b. 1903, Boston, Mass.; d. 1993, Glencoe, Ill.; Studied at the Massachusetts School of Art, the Beaux Arts Institute of Design, under artist Robert Laurent at the Art Students League, and at the American Artists School under Ben Shahn. He had the first exhibition of his oil paintings at the Art Center in New York City, 1933. In the 1940s, Calapai worked in the Atelier 17 printmaking...

Letterio Calapai

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Italian-American painter, engraver, and printmaker Letterio Calapai was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1903. His parents emigrated from Sicily and encouraged his participation in the arts at an early age. Calapai studied at the Massachusetts School of Art, the Beaux Arts Institute of Design, under artist Robert Laurent at the Art Students League, and at the American Artists School under Ben Shahn. While in New York, Calalpai worked as a lithographer in a commercial pri...

Haystack Mountain School of Crafts

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Craft and art school; Deer Isle, Me. From the description of Haystack Mountain School of Crafts records, 1950-1969. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122389617 Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, located in Deer Isle, Maine, was founded in 1950 by a group of craft artists in Belfast, Maine. The school gained financial support from Mary Beasom Bishop, a resident of Flint, Michigan who had a summer home in the area. Francis S. Merritt was its first director; his wife Priscilla Me...