Artist
Peppino Mangravite
born Lipari, Italy 1896-died West Cornwall, CT 1978
- Born
- Lipari, Italy
- Died
- West Cornwall, Connecticut, United States
- Active in
- New York, New York, United States
- Nationalities
- American
- Biography
Painter, muralist, educator and author. Mangravite's pantings of still lifes, figure groups and figures in landscapes strove to symbolize universal truths. He was director of art education at the Ethical Culture School in New York City and at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronzville, N.Y.
Joan Stahl American Artists in Photographic Portraits from the Peter A. Juley & Son Collection (Washington, D.C. and Mineola, New York: National Museum of American Art and Dover Publications, Inc., 1995)