Salvatore Scarpitta (23 March 1919 – 10 April 2007) was an American artist best known for his sculptural studies of motion.
[2] He served in the United States Navy during World War II as a "Monuments Man", finding, preserving and cataloging art stolen by the Nazis.
During his time in Rome he was represented by the leading Avant-garde modern art gallery in Italy, Galleria La Tartaruga.
He also was a part of many Castelli group shows that included artists such as Norman Bluhm, Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist, John Chamberlain and Julian Schnabel.
Because of his slant, he enjoyed the entire spectrum of the experience of sprint car racing and cared much less about statistics.
From the arrangement of tread on the tires, the organic aspects of mud, the smell, sounds, right through to the human drama that surrounded it all, racing was his favorite thing.