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Angelo Ippolito

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Angelo Ippolito Veteran

Birth
Naples, Città Metropolitana di Napoli, Campania, Italy
Death
29 Oct 2001 (aged 78)
Burial
Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, USA Add to Map
Plot
Lot 44045 Section 159 Grave 2
Memorial ID
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IPPOLITO, ANGELO
Buried: 2 Nov 2001
Lot 44045 Section 159 Grave 2

Angelo Ippolito (7 November 1922 – 29 October 2001) was an American painter best known for color field oils on canvas that have been exhibited and collected internationally, as well as for his central role in inaugurating the downtown art scene of postwar New York.[1]

Ippolito's family immigrated to the United States when he was 9 years old. After serving in the Philippines during World War II, he studied with Amédée Ozenfant and John Ferren in New York and Afro in Rome.[2] In 1952 he and painter Fred Mitchell invited artists Lois Dodd, William King, and Charles Cajori to join in founding the first artist-run downtown gallery in New York. The Tanager Gallery inaugurated the Tenth Street-avant-garde scene of the 1950s, and its members soon grew to include artists such as Sally Hazelet, Alex Katz and Philip Pearlstein. Its primary audience was other artists who were "simultaneously participants and spectators."[3] The Tanager's founders actively sought out underrecognized artists, giving a first show to artists who would later become famous, including Elise Asher, Alfred Jensen, and Jasper Johns.[4] Ippolito later accepted positions as artist-in-residence at the University of California at Berkeley (1961–62) and as a professor of art at Michigan State University (1963–71) and Binghamton University (1971-2001). After his death on October 29, 2001 he was interred at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn,
IPPOLITO, ANGELO
Buried: 2 Nov 2001
Lot 44045 Section 159 Grave 2

Angelo Ippolito (7 November 1922 – 29 October 2001) was an American painter best known for color field oils on canvas that have been exhibited and collected internationally, as well as for his central role in inaugurating the downtown art scene of postwar New York.[1]

Ippolito's family immigrated to the United States when he was 9 years old. After serving in the Philippines during World War II, he studied with Amédée Ozenfant and John Ferren in New York and Afro in Rome.[2] In 1952 he and painter Fred Mitchell invited artists Lois Dodd, William King, and Charles Cajori to join in founding the first artist-run downtown gallery in New York. The Tanager Gallery inaugurated the Tenth Street-avant-garde scene of the 1950s, and its members soon grew to include artists such as Sally Hazelet, Alex Katz and Philip Pearlstein. Its primary audience was other artists who were "simultaneously participants and spectators."[3] The Tanager's founders actively sought out underrecognized artists, giving a first show to artists who would later become famous, including Elise Asher, Alfred Jensen, and Jasper Johns.[4] Ippolito later accepted positions as artist-in-residence at the University of California at Berkeley (1961–62) and as a professor of art at Michigan State University (1963–71) and Binghamton University (1971-2001). After his death on October 29, 2001 he was interred at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn,


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