Anthony Angarola was an American painter

Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...

 and art instructor. He graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Since he was an Italian immigrant himself, his work focused on people who struggled to adapt to a foreign culture.

Work

Angarola taught as an art instructor at the Layton School of Art

Layton School of Art

The Layton School of Art was a third level institute based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It was established by Charlotte Partridge and Miriam Frink in 1920 and closed as a result of financial insolvency in 1974. At its closure, the school was regarded as one of the top five art schools in the United...

 in Milwaukee in 1921, the Minneapolis School of Art from 1922 to 1925, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1926 and the Kansas City Art Institute

Kansas City Art Institute

The Kansas City Art Institute is a private, independent, four-year college of fine arts and design founded in 1885 in Kansas City, Missouri....

 from 1926. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1928. He also participated in the Carnegie International exposition in 1928, exhibiting his painting entitled Proud.

Personal life

Angarola was married to Maria Ambrosius , a concert pianist. They had two children together, Richard Anthony Angarola (a noted character actor) and Yvonne Daly (an accomplished classical pianist and award winning composer), before divorcing. He has five grandchildren, Richard (also a painter), Anthony (deceased in 1990), Ondine, Susan and Brooke, and one great-grandchild, Aurelia Langford who is an aspiring singer songwriter. Although he died at the young age of 36, he inspired many artists. Two of his noted students were William S. Schwartz

William S. Schwartz

William S. Schwartz was an American artist who lived and worked in Chicago.-Biography:Schwartz was born in Smorgon in Belarus, then in the Russian Empire in 1896. His parents were Samuel Schwartz and Tauba Reznikoff. At the age of thirteen, he moved to the nearby city of Vilna to attend art school...

 and Belle Baranceanu

Belle Baranceanu

Belle Goldschlager Baranceanu was an American artist.She was born Belle Goldschlager in Chicago, Illinois . She studied at the Minneapolis School of Fine Arts under Anthony Angarola, to whom she was engaged until his death in 1929...

, with whom he was engaged at the time of his death. His work is now in the permanent collection of several museums including the Art Institute of Chicago

Art Institute of Chicago

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago is one of America's largest accredited independent schools of art and design, located in the Loop in Chicago, Illinois. It is associated with the museum of the same name, and "The Art Institute of Chicago" or "Chicago Art Institute" often refers to either...

 and the Davis Museum at Wellesley College in Boston.

H. P. Lovecraft

Angarola is also notable as one of the favorite artists of the horror writer H. P. Lovecraft

H. P. Lovecraft

Howard Phillips Lovecraft --often credited as H.P. Lovecraft — was an American author of horror, fantasy and science fiction, especially the subgenre known as weird fiction....

. Lovecraft made a reference to the works of Angarola in his short story The Call of Cthulhu

The Call of Cthulhu

The Call of Cthulhu is a short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written in the summer of 1926, it was first published in the pulp magazine Weird Tales, in February 1928.-Inspiration:...

and did the same in Pickman's Model

Pickman's Model

"Pickman's Model" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft, written in September 1926 and first published in the October 1927 issue of Weird Tales...

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External links

• DAVIS MUSEUM at www.wellesley.edu