14 Facts About Antonio Frasconi

Antonio Frasconi was a Uruguayan - American visual artist, best known for his woodcuts.

Antonio Frasconi was raised in Montevideo, Uruguay, and lived in the United States from 1945.

Antonio Frasconi said that his mother talked of art at the church where she was brought up as if it had been done by God rather than man.

Antonio Frasconi felt that if Frasconi had been born with a gift, he would already be a famous artist rather than working like her each day.

Antonio Frasconi's mother worked in the restaurant, cared for Frasconi and his two sisters and still found time to be a seamstress.

Antonio Frasconi says he became intrigued by American writers and musicians.

Antonio Frasconi would hear Jazz on the radio and read American authors like Walt Whitman.

Antonio Frasconi moved to the United States in 1945 at the end of World War II.

Antonio Frasconi worked as a gardener and as a guard at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art.

Antonio Frasconi's recognition was beginning to grow and within twelve months he had a similar show at the Brooklyn Museum of Art.

In 1955, Antonio Frasconi's woodcuts were exhibited at the Summit Art Association, now known as Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, in Summit, NJ.

In 1962 Antonio Frasconi won a Horn Book Fanfare award for The Snow and the Sun - La Nieve y el Sol a book he had created in two languages.

In 1982 Antonio Frasconi was the Distinguished Teaching Professor of Visual Arts at the State University of New York at Purchase.

Antonio Frasconi's students have included Martha Zelt, Adrian Lee Kellard, Tanya Kukucka and Ron Rocco.