Biography from AskART:
| | Born in Naples, Italy on Nov. 29, 1898. DeFerrante studied at the Istituto delle Belle Arti in Naples and served a two-year apprenticeship with Antonio Mancini. After immigrating to the U.S. in 1922, he worked in NYC doing portraits and murals until 1935 when he moved to southern California. After settling in Glendale, he taught at Barnsdale College during 1970-84. His early paintings are representational and later ones abstract. He died in Martinez, CA on Dec. 7, 1992. Member: Western Serigraph Institute of LA. Exh: Biennale de Milano (1st prize); LACMA, 1952; Martinez Civic Arts Gallery, 1996 (retrospective). In: Yale, Princeton, & Brigham Young universities; U.S. Bureau of Information (Washington); Library of Congress; Philadelphia Library; Cleveland Museum. | Source:
Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
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Biography from AskART:
| One of the original followers of the Italian Manifesto of Futurism, Mario de Ferrante studied with Antonio Mancini in Italy before coming to the United States in 1922. The first years after his arrival, he did murals and serigraphs, becoming one of the first members of the Los Angeles Serigraphy Institute of Los Angeles. He established a studio in Glendale.
As a Futurist, he believed that artists should tear down all past traditions in painting and devote themselves to subjects of science and industry, the key to human liberation. In style, Futurists strove to achieve a strong sense of dynamism.
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