Oronzo Vito Gasparo

Oronzo Vito Gasparo (1903–1969), was an American artist often known for surreal townscape painting, design, and crafts.

Oronzo Vito Gasparo was born in Rutigliano, Bari, Italy in 1903, one of seventeen children.

[1] He spent many active years in California, and died in New York City in 1969.

[3] A number of Gasparo's works were acquired by Onya La Tour, who was an avid collector and enthusiast of modern art in New York in the 1930s, and who directed the Federal Art Gallery of the Federal Arts Project of the Work Projects Administration, 225 W 57th St, New York NY.

[4] During his lifetime he had over 40 one-man shows ranging from 1928 to a retrospective in 1974.