VINCENZO MISERENDINO AMERICAN ANTIQUE WATERCOLOR LANDSCAPE VINTAGE PAINTING

VINCENZO MISERENDINO (1875 - 1943) ITALIAN AMERICAN. RARE WATERCOLOR SIGNED ANDDATED 1931 IN ORIGINAL FRAME. IN THE 1920S, MISERENDINO HAD A SHOW AT THE TIFFANY STUDIOSOF WATERCOLORS AND SCULPTURES, WHICH HAD BEEN ORGANIZED BY LOUIS C. TIFFANY CONDITION IS GOOD FOR AGE. MATTING HAS TONING. FRAME SIZE 14.5 X 10.5 INCHES IMAGE 7 X 5 1/4 INCHES Vincenzo "Vincent" Miserendino (January 29, 1875 – December 26, 1943) was an Italian-American artist and sculptor born in Sicily and active in New York City during the first half of the 20th century. He studied art first in Palermo at the age of 13 and then in Rome at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma (Academy of Fine Arts at Rome). He immigrated to the United States in 1894 at the age of nineteen, and settled on the lower east side of Manhattan, working in many odd jobs while trying to establish himself as an artist.Currently his sculptures can be found throughout the United States and many are catalogued in the Smithsonian Institution's Research Information Service. Miserendino became noted for his statues of Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin Delano Roosevelt.In 1922 Miserendino created a larger-than-life terracotta sculpture of Roosevelt sitting on a rock in safari hunting attire, with a giant lion head beside his feet. In addition to Roosevelt as Hunter, he also made two other Roosevelt portraits (Oklahoma City, OK, 1907) and (A. B. Davis Middle School, Mount Vernon, New York, 1923). Miserendino did several statues of Christopher Columbus, one of which is an 8 1/2' bronze statue of Christopher Columbus mounted on a 10 1/2' foot marble pedestal in City Park, Reading, Pennsylvania. It was commissioned by the United Italian Societies of Reading and Berks County for the 500th anniversary of the Columbus voyage to the new world, and unveiled and dedicated on October 12, 1925. The statue was rededicated in 1992. Another statue of Columbus is on the lawn of the Connecticut State Capitol.This statue was removed in 2020 due to the ongoing controversy on the legacy of Christopher Columbus and vandalization of other Columbus statues around the country.