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In 1925 Antonio Martino’s
painting instructor wrote a note of congratulations to his talented
student
who, at the age of twenty-three, had two paintings accepted in the
Pennsylvania
Academy for the Fine Arts Annual Exhibition. The teacher was pleased
that
his student’s work was being shown with the nation’s outstanding
painters.
Besides, Martino’s landscapes bore sold signs. . . he was urged to
continue
painting, which he did for the next fifty years. |
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Early in his career he decided
to concentrate on landscapes, and painted along the Darby Creek and on
the Delaware River above New Hope. He first exhibited at seventeen, and
while still in his early twenties was winning prizes in Philadelphia at
the Art Club, the Sketch Club, and at the Sesquicentennial, and in New
York at the National Academy of Design. |
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These landscapes were painted
out of doors with the direct impressionistic brushwork of Redfield and
Schofield. Later he did countless views of Manayunk and East coast
subjects,
gradually developing his personal style of solid, simplified
compositions
in rich tone and colour. [Bill Campbell, Antonio Martino a
Retrospective,
Woodmere Art Gallery, Philadelphia, 1982.] |
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