biography of Letterio CALAPAI (1902-1993)

Birth place: Boston, MA

Death place: Glencoe, IL

Addresses: NYC, 1947; Glencoe, IL, 1973

Profession: Printmaker, instructor

Studied: Mass. Sch. Art; Sch. Fine Arts & Crafts; Am. Artists Sch.; ASL; BAID; also with Robert Laurent, Ben Shahn, Stanley Hayter, Charles Hopkinson, H. Giles

Exhibited: Salons of Am., 1934; Phila. WCC, 1934-46; PAFA, 1934, 1935; CM, 1934; Wilmington WC Soc., 1934-46; PAFA, , 1934; AIC, 1936; AV, 1943; Northwest Pr.M., 1943-46; LOC, 1944, 1945; Baltimore WCC, 1944, 1945; NYWF, 1964-1965 (prize); Intag. One, Calif., 1971; 20-yr. retrospective of graphic work, touring univ. & cols. throughout the US, 1972-1973. Awards: Tiffany Found. grant, 1959; Rosenwald Found., 1960

Member: NSMP; Atelier 17 Group Northwest Pr.M.; Springfield, Mass. AL; Baltimore WCC; Soc. Am. Graphic Artists (past v. pres.); Audubon Artists (former dir.); Adv. Panel, Ill. Arts Coun.

Work: MMA; Fogg Art Mus., Cambridge, Mass.; AIC; LOC; BM; BMFA; NYPL; mural, 101st Battalion Armory, Brooklyn, NY; Bibliot. Nat., Paris, France; Kyobashi MOMA, Tokyo, Japan

Comments: Illus., Tales of Momolu," 1946, "The Mohawk," 1946. Positions: founder-dir., Intaglio Workshop for Advanced Printmaking, 1960-1965. Teaching: instr., drawing, Riverside Mus., NYC; instr., woodcut, Brooklyn Mus. FA Sch., 1947; chmn. graphic arts dept., Albright Art Sch., Univ. Buffalo, 1949-1955; instr. graphics, New Sch. Social Res., 1955-1962; instr. graphics, New York Univ., 1962-1965; vis. assoc. prof. fine arts, Brandeis Univ., 1964-1965; instr., Univ. Ill., Chicago Circle, 1965.

Sources: WW73; WW47; Falk, Exhibition Record Series