Italo Scanga Prints and Multiples
American, Italian, 1932-2001
Italo Scanga was born in the Calabria region of Italy, and at 14 immigrated to the United States with his family after World War II. Living in Detroit, he worked on the General Motors assembly line and served in the United States Army before attending Michigan State University, where he received a bachelor's degree in 1960 and a master's degree in sculpture a year later.
Scanga worked in an amazing range of media from printmaking to ceramics, from found-object sculptures to works made of glass, cultivating a style that blended Cubist and folk influences. His penchant for transforming found objects into art translates into his printmaking style, where a recognizable collage-like composition is often evident.
Scanga was the recipient of numerous grants including two National Endowment for the Arts Grants (1989, 1980), a Copley Foundation Grant (1972) and a Howard Foundation Grant (1970), among others. He has had one-person shows at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Art, Boston, and the Museo Rufino Tamayo in Mexico City and elsewhere. His work is in the collection of many museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Detroit Institute of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Yale University Gallery of Art, the San Diego Museum of Art, the Hirshhorn Museum, the Fogg Museum at Harvard University, the Guggenheim Museum, and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, among others.to
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Artist: Italo Scanga
The Bean Eater
By Italo Scanga
Located in New York, NY
Italo Scanga was born in the Calabria region of Italy, and at 14 immigrated to the United States with his family after World War II. Living in Detroit, he worked on the General Motor...
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1980s Contemporary Italo Scanga Prints and Multiples
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Woodcut
$800 Sale Price
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Monte Cassino, Political Woodcut Etching by Italo Scanga
By Italo Scanga
Located in Long Island City, NY
Monte Cassino by Italo Scanga, Italian/American (1932–2001)
Date: 1984
One Color Woodcut, Signed and numbered in Pencil
Edition of 10
Size: 28 in. x 20 i...
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1980s Modern Italo Scanga Prints and Multiples
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Woodcut
Monte Cassino, Abstract Woodcut Print by Italo Scanga
By Italo Scanga
Located in Long Island City, NY
Monte Cassino by Italo Scanga, Italian/American (1932–2001)
Date: 1984
Woodcut, Signed and numbered in Pencil
Edition of 25
Size: 28 in. x 20 in. (71.12 ...
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1980s Modern Italo Scanga Prints and Multiples
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Woodcut
Monte Cassino
By Italo Scanga
Located in New York, NY
Italo Scanga was born in the Calabria region of Italy, and at 14 immigrated to the United States with his family after World War II. Living in Detroit, he worked on the General Motor...
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1980s Contemporary Italo Scanga Prints and Multiples
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Woodcut
The Revolt
By Italo Scanga
Located in New York, NY
Italo Scanga was born in the Calabria region of Italy, and at 14 immigrated to the United States with his family after World War II. Living in Detroit, he worked on the General Motor...
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1980s Contemporary Italo Scanga Prints and Multiples
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$840 Sale Price
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Musicians
By Italo Scanga
Located in New York, NY
Italo Scanga was born in the Calabria region of Italy, and at 14 immigrated to the United States with his family after World War II. Living in Detroit, he worked on the General Motor...
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1980s Contemporary Italo Scanga Prints and Multiples
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Woodcut
$840 Sale Price
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Gaspara Stampa
By Italo Scanga
Located in New York, NY
Italo Scanga was born in the Calabria region of Italy, and at 14 immigrated to the United States with his family after World War II. Living in Detroit, he worked on the General Motor...
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1980s Contemporary Italo Scanga Prints and Multiples
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Woodcut
$840 Sale Price
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Celeste
By Italo Scanga
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph, Edition 30.
Italo Scanga was a painter, sculptor and printmaker. After a childhood spent in Italy, Scanga matured as an artist in his adopted home, the United St...
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1990s Contemporary Italo Scanga Prints and Multiples
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2CYPRESS
By Italo Scanga
Located in Portland, ME
Scanga, Italo (American, born Italy, 1932-2001). 2CYPRESS. Color Lithograph and woodblock on paper, 1989. Edition of 40, signed, titled, dated, and numbered 18/40, all in pencil. 41 ...
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1980s Italo Scanga Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph, Woodcut
UNTITLED (from the ARTSOUNDS Collection)
By Italo Scanga
Located in New York, NY
ITALO SCANGA
Untitled (from the Artsounds Collection), 1986
color offset print, ed. 200
12 x 12 cm. 30.5 x 30.5 cm.
Edition 49/100
signed and numbered in pencil by the artist, sig...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Italo Scanga Prints and Multiples
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Offset
Ravenna II
By Italo Scanga
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph, Edition 25
Italo Scanga was a painter, sculptor and printmaker. After a childhood spent in Italy, Scanga matured as an artist in his adopted home, the United Sta...
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1990s Contemporary Italo Scanga Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Ravenna I
By Italo Scanga
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph, Edition 25
Italo Scanga was a painter, sculptor and printmaker. After a childhood spent in Italy, Scanga matured as an artist in his adopted home, the United Sta...
Category
1990s Contemporary Italo Scanga Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Gaspara Stampa, Surrealist Woodcut Print by Italo Scango
By Italo Scanga
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Italo Scanga, Italian (1932 - 2001)
Title: Gaspara Stampa
Year: 1982
Medium: Woodcut on Japon, Signed and numbered in Pencil
Edition: 20
Paper Size: 30.5 x 20.5 inches [77.47...
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1980s Surrealist Italo Scanga Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
$960 Sale Price
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Musicians, Signed Modern Woodcut Portraits by Italo Scanga
By Italo Scanga
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Italo Scanga, Italian (1932 - 2001)
Title: Musicians
Year: 1982
Medium: Woodcut, Signed and numbered in Pencil
Edition: 20
Paper Size: 30.5 x 20.5 inches (77.47 x 52.07 cm)
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1980s Modern Italo Scanga Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
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