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Emanuel Glicenstein RomanoLAKEWOOD N.J., 1936 Modernist Oil Painting, Judaica1936
1936
About the Item
Genre: Modern
Subject: Landscape
Medium: Oil
Surface: Board
Country: United States
Dimensions: 30" x 22"
EMANUEL ROMANO
Rome, Italy, b. 1897, d. 1984
Emanuel Glicenstein Romano was born in Rome, September 23, 1897.
His father Henryk Glicenstein was a sculptor and was living in Rome with his wife Helena (born Hirszenberg) when Emanuel was born. His father obtained Italian citizenship and adopted the name Enrico. Emanuel was brought up in Italy, Switzerland, Germany, England and Poland.
In 1926 Emanuel and his father sailed for New York. They briefly visited Chicago. Romano's sister, Beatrice, and mother only joined them in New York years later.
Romano changed his name on his arrival to America and some have erroneously speculated that this was to avoid antisemitic discrimination. In truth, as the son of a highly-regarded artist, Romano changed his name to ensure that any success or recognition he would later attain, would be the result of nothing other than his own merit as an artist, and not on account of his father's fame.
In 1936 Romano was worked for the Federal Art Project creating murals. During and immediately after World War II, Romano created a series of allegorical works depicting graphic holocaust images that were held closely by the family until after his passing. One of these works is now on permanent display in the Florida Holocaust Museum in St. Petersburg Florida.
Emanuel's father died in 1942 in a car accident before they could realize their shared dream of visiting Israel.
In 1944 Romano, having completed his degree at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the Art Institute of Chicago, began teaching at the City College of New York.
Romano moved to Safed, Israel in 1953 and established an art museum in his father's memory, the Glicentein Museum.
COLLECTIONS
Indianapolis Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Boston Fine Arts Museum
Fogg Museum
Musée Nacional de France
Recently his work has been added to the Florida Holocaust Museum collection. His notable works include his holocaust themed allegorical paintings as well as portraits of Marianne Moore, his father and William Carlos Williams. Romano created a well known portrait of T.S. Eliot as well as the woodcuts to illustrate an edition of Eliot's "The Waste Land".
Emanuel Romano died in 1984.
- Creator:Emanuel Glicenstein Romano (1897 - 1984, American, Italian)
- Creation Year:1936
- Dimensions:Height: 30 in (76.2 cm)Width: 22 in (55.88 cm)
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- Condition:wear commensurate with age and use. unframed with some edge wear to board.
- Gallery Location:Surfside, FL
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU38211971592
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