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Ad Code: 3
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from Auction House Records.
Daphne, Foresta and Kaspar, 1913
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Born in Palermo, Italy, Salvatore Scarpitta was a sculptor of figure and religious subjects whose studio was first in New York City and then in Los Angeles.
He graduated from the Royal Italian Academy and then emigrated to the United States in 1910, staying in New York until 1923 and then settling in Los Angeles, California until his death in 1948. There he completed numerous public sculptures including work for the Church of St. John the Evangelist, Church of the Sacred Blood, and the L (showing 500 of 1420 characters). |
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