| Oronzo Vito Gasparo | |
| Image Upright: | 1.35 |
| Birth Date: | 1903 |
| Birth Place: | Rutigliano, Bari, Italy |
| Death Date: | 1969 (aged 66) |
| Death Place: | New York City, New York, United States |
| Nationality: | American |
| Citizenship: | United States |
| Occupation: | Artist |
Oronzo Vito Gasparo (1903 - 1969), was an American artist often knownfor surreal townscape painting, design, and crafts.
Oronzo Vito Gasparo was born in Rutigliano, Bari, Italy in 1903, one of seventeen children. His parents were Italian and Hindu.[1] He spent many active years in California, and died in New York City in 1969.
Gasparo studied at the National Academy of Design in New York; he was mentored by Preston Dickinson[2] and was Dickinson's favorite pupil.
Oronzo Vito Gasparo worked under the Works Progress Administration Easel Project during the Great Depression.[3]
A number of Gasparo's works were acquired by Onya La Tour, who was an avid collector and enthusiast of modern art in New York in the 1930s, and who directed the Federal Art Gallery of the Federal Arts Project of the Work Projects Administration, 225 W 57th St, New York NY.[4]
During his lifetime he had over 40 one-man shows ranging from 1928 to a retrospective in 1974. Many examples of his paintings can be seen at WikiArt.Org.
| Year | Author | Title | |
| 2005 | Davenport, Ray | Davenport's Art Reference, The Gold Edition | |
| 2005 | AskART.com Inc./Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor) | The Artists Bluebook, 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 | |
| 2002 | Hughes, Edan Milton | Artists in California: 1786-1940, Two Volumes | |
| 1999 | Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) | Who Was Who in American Art 1564-1975, 3 Volumes | |
| 1990 | Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) | The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago | |
| 1989 | Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) | Annual Exhibition Record, 1914–68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts | |
| 1988 | Geske, Norman/Karen Janovy | The American Painting Collection, The Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery | |
| 1985 | Falk, Peter Hastings | Who Was Who in American Art, Artists Active 1898-1947 | |
| 1984 | Marlor, Clark S | The Society of Independent Artists, Exhibition Record 1917-1944 | |
| 1977 | Barr, Alfred H | Painting and Sculpture, in the Museum of Modern Art | |
| 1975 | Editor, Smithsonian | Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection | |
| 1966 | Editors | Who's Who in American Art-1966 | |
| 1948 | Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge | Index of Artists International Biographical, 2 Volumes | |
| 1947 | Editors | Who's Who in American Art-1947 | |
| 1936 | Museum of Modern Art | New Horizons in American Art, Federal Art Project exhibition |