Angelo Ippolito (7 November 1922 – 29 October 2001) was an American painter best known for color field oils on canvas that have been exhibited and collected internationally, as well as for his central role in inaugurating the downtown art scene of postwar New York.
[2] In 1952 he and painter Fred Mitchell invited artists Lois Dodd, William King, and Charles Cajori to join in founding the first artist-run downtown gallery in New York.
The Tanager Gallery inaugurated the Tenth Street-avant-garde scene of the 1950s, and its members soon grew to include artists such as Sally Hazelet, Alex Katz and Philip Pearlstein.
[5] Critic Robert Rosenblum called Ippolito's inaugural exhibition at the Bertha Schaefer Gallery "a notable event," writing that "his canvases present abstract analogies to a landscape vision, suggesting earth, horizon line and sky; yet the separate realms of land and air are most often fused together in a single coloristic unity."
"[7] In the 1970s his paintings became more expansive and bright-hued, prompting critic Hilton Kramer to write, "the pleasure of color remains his primary concern, and he is a virtuoso in the handling of it.