Italo Scanga

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Italo Scanga (June 6, 1932 - July 7, 2001) Italian-born American artist.

Contents 1 Biography 2 About His Work 3 Permanent Collections 4 External links

[edit] Biography

Born in Lago, Calabria to Giuseppe and Serafina Ziccarelli, youngest of four children: Carolina, Mafalda and Nicolino.

[edit] About His Work

Italo Scanga was an innovative neo-Dadaist, neo-Expressionist and neo-Cubist multimedia artist who made sculptures of ordinary objects and created prints, glass and ceramic works.

[edit] Permanent Collections

• Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria

• Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY

• Arizona State University Art Museum, Nelson Fine Arts Center, Tempe, AZ

• The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

• Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA

• Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY

• Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH

• Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI

• Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

• Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC

• Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

• Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI

• Mingei International Museum, San Diego, CA

• Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA

• The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

• Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL

• The Oakland Museum of California, Oakland CA

• Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA

• Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

• Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA

• San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA

• Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA

• Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago Museum, Chicago, IL

• Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH

• University of Wisconsin Hospitals & Clinics, Madison, WI

• Utah State University, Logan, UT

• Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN

• Yale University, New Haven, CT

[edit] External links

Italo Scanga Foundation http://www.italoscanga.org/