Gregorio Prestopino (1907 to 1984)
Prestopino, born in New York’s Little Italy and educated at the National Academy of Design, was influenced by the Ashcan painters and their depiction of urban life. In 1934 he summered at the prestigious MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, N.H., where he would later serve as director (in 1954). Throughout his career he taught painting, including at the Brooklyn Museum School (1946 to 1951) and he was artist-in-residence at Michigan State University in 1960.
Information courtesy of Morphy Auctions, December 2007