biografia di Antonio FRASCONI (1919-2013)

Birth place: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Addresses: Norwalk, CT

Profession: Illustrator, painter, printmaker

Studied: ASL; New School Social Res.

Exhibited: PAFA, 1953 (Joseph Pennell Mem. medal); Venice Film Festival, 1960 (Grand Prix); Casa Americas, Havana, Cuba, 1965-68 (prize); Venice Biennale, Italy, 1968; Art of the Americas, Yale Univ.; Smithsonian Inst.; WMAA; Weyhe Gal. and Terry Dintenfass, NYC, 1970s.

Work: MMA; MoMA; Mus. Nac. Bellas Artes, Montevideo, Uruguay; Bibliothèque Nat., Paris; Arts Council Great Britain, London.

Comments: Illustrator: Twelve Fables of Aesop, 1954; Bestiary, 1965; Overhead the Sun, 1969; Unstill Life, 1969; On the Slain Collegians, 1971.

Sources: WW73; Leona E. Prasse, The Work of A. Frasconi (Baltimore Mus. Art, 1963); Manuel Gasser, A. Frasconi, (Graphis Press, Switzerland, 1967).