Rudy Pozzatti (born 1925)
Rudy Pozzatti was born in
Telluride, Colorado in 1925. Pozzatti was graduated from the University
of Colorado in 1948 and received his Masters of Fine Arts there in
1950. Following a graduate assistant teaching fellowship at the
University of Colorado he became instructor in painting, graphic arts,
and design at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, and in 1954 was
promoted to assistant professor.
He has had six one-man exhibitions and has participated in over forty
others. His work is represented in some thirty public collections.
Of the numerous awards he has received the most important was a
Fullbright Grant for one year's study in Italy where he was affiliated
with Istituto d'Arte in Florence in 1952 and 1953.
Source:
Work of Rudy Pozzatti, catalogue of an exhibition sponsored by
The Print Club of Cleveland and the Cleveland Museum of Art 1956
Rudy Pozzatti (from a Martha Jackson Gallery press release)
Born Telluride, Colorado, January 14, 1925. Studied at the University of Colorado, receiving a BFA in 1948 and MFA in 1950. Spent three years in the army, Sgt. FA and sixteen months overseas. While at the University of Colorado, studied under Emilio Amero, Max Beckman and Ben Shahn. While completing his MA, he was graduate assistant in Freshman Drawing, teaching Freshman Drawing. For two years 1950-1952 he was instructor in painting and graphic arts at the University of Nebraska. During summer term 1951, he was visiting prof. at the University of Colorado and taught Drawing and Life Drawing.
1952-1953 he received a Fulbright Grant for one year's study in Italy (affiliated with Institute d'Arte, Florence, Italy). 1953-1954, he returned to teach graphic arts & design at the University of Nebraska.
Exhibits : (solo)
Art Institute of Chicago, 1954; Philadelphia Art Alliance.
Exhibits : (group)
14 American Artists at Via Veneto in Rome; University of Nebraska; University of Illinois; Joslyn Art Museum; Seattle Art Museum; Denver Art Museum; Kansas State College; Canon City Colorado; Central City; Addison Gallery of American Art; Nelson Gallery of Art; San Francisco Museum of Art; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts; Springfield Art Museum; Walker Art Cente; Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center; Brooklyn Museum; Terry Art Institute; Library of Congress; Baltimore Museum of Art; Rochester Memorial Art Gallery; City Art Museum of Saint Louis; Downtown Gallery; Mulvane Art Center in Topeka; Sioux City Art Center; Whitney Museum of American Art; Art Institute of Chicago; Wichita Art Association; University of Minnesota; Museum of Modern Art; Bradley University; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; Des Moines Art Center; Wadsworth Atheneum; University of Wisconsin; Norfolk Museum; Philadelphia Academy Annual for Oil Paintings 1954; Martha Jackson Gallery, New Talent 1954; New York City Center 1954; University of Southern California 1954; Youngstown College 1954; Brandeis University 1954.
Holdings :
Walker Art Center; Museum of Modern Art; Butler Art Institute; Springfield Art Museum; Miller & Paine in Lincoln, Nebraska; Lincoln Artist's Guild; Clare Booth Luce; University of Delaware; Canon City Art Association in Canon City, Colorado; University of Nebraska Art Galleries; Mulvane Art Center in Topeka, Kansa
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