Valenti Angelo

Valenti Angelo

Valenti Angelo (1897-1982) (variant name Valenti Michael Angelo) was an Italian-American printmaker, illustrator and author, born June 23, 1897 in Massarosa, Italy. He immigrated to the United States with his family in 1905, living first in New York City then settling in Antioch, California. At the age of nineteen, Angelo moved to San Francisco, working by day as a labourer and spending his evenings and weekends at libraries and museums. He soon became a versatile artist and an especially skilled engraver and printer. Angelo's favoured medium was the linocut, and his prints depicting urban nocturnes and desert scenes of the American Southwest are particularly coveted by collectors and dealers. In 1926, Angelo made his first book illustrations for the well-known, San Francisco-based Grabhorn Press.

In a period of 34 years, Angelo decorated and illustrated roughly 250 books. Among these were folio editions of Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass", "The Travels of Sir John Mandeville", and numerous books of the Bible. Many of these books have been included in the annual American Institute of Graphic Arts exhibitions since 1927. Under the tutelage of May Massee of Viking Press, Angelo began writing children's stories in 1937. In 1939, Angelo won the Newbery Honor for "Nino". After a mid-life relocation to New York State, he returned to San Francisco in 1974 and continued his life's work. Angelo died in San Francisco on September 3, 1982.

elected collections

* "Library of Congress", Washington
* "New York Public Library"

elected publications

* "Paradise Valley"
* "The Rooster Club"
* "The Bells of Bleecker Street"
* "The Marble Fountain"
* "Nino"

References

* Linden, James (ed.). "Con Amore: Valenti Angelo: A Bibliography, 1971-1982". San Francisco: Linden Editions, 1992.
* "Valenti Angelo: Author, Illustrator, Printer". San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1976.

External links

* [http://www.catholicauthors.com/angelo.html Autobiography]
* [http://www.askart.com/askart/a/valenti_michael_angelo/valenti_michael_angelo.aspx Askart.com] (Valenti Michael Angelo)
* [http://www.stonybrook.edu/libspecial/collections/manuscripts/angelo.shtml Stony Brook University Archives] (Valenti Angelo collection)
* [http://www.printdealers.com/artist_template.cfm?id=2054 International Fine Print Dealers Association] (Valenti Angelo)


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