Egg tempera on board, initialed and dated at lower right "GD '87," inscribed by the artist on the verso, retaining a paper entry card on the verso for the 53rd Annual Art Exhibition of the Cooperstown Art Associated (1988), likely the original frame.

DOA 25.5 x 19.5 in.

From the Estate of the Artist

Exhibited:
"Two Modernists Revisited," Kouros Gallery, Jan. 6-29, 2011, New York, NY

A disciple of Pittura Metafisica (metaphysical art), Danella translated the ethos of the burgeoning Italian-American community in his home town of Utica, New York.

Danella began his early studies in Utica at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute. By the age of sixteen, in 1944, he had moved to NYC and enrolled at the Art Students League. While in NYC he befriended Alfred Stieglitz and John Marin. He later met and impressed Josef Albers, whose geometric abstractions and color studies greatly influenced Danella during the period this painting was completed. Danella went on to influence his own cadre of students, never setting the brush down himself.


$500 - 1,000