Peppino Mangravite

[2][3][4] Peppino Gino Mangravite was born in 1896, on Lipari, an island north of Sicily, where his father, a naval officer, was stationed.

Upon arrival in New York, he enrolled at Cooper Union, and by 1917 was studying under Robert Henri at the Art Students League.

[6] In 1962 he exhibited his work at a two man show with Kenneth Evatt at Lehigh University at the invitation of Professor Francis Quirk.

He painted murals for the Department of Labor in Washington, D.C., and for post offices in Hempstead, New York and Atlantic City, New Jersey.

[8] He was the Director of the Art Department at Sarah Lawrence College and a Professor of Painting at Columbia University.