Painter-sculptor Salvatore Scarpitta was an artist with wide-ranging
modernist expression that included wrapped canvases symbolizing death
and survival and sculptures of cars and sleds as a metaphor for
travel. He was born in 1919 in Manhattan, and was raised in Los
Angeles, where his Italian-born father, was commissioned to do the
bas-relief sculptures on the Los Angeles Stock Exchange Building.
His mother was a part-time actress.
Scarpitta graduated from Hollywood (showing 500 of 4377 characters). |
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