Peppino Mangravite

Peppino Mangravite (June 28, 1896 – April 26, 1978) was an Italian-American Modernist painter.

Peppino Gino Mangravite was born in 1896, on Lipari, an island north of Sicily, where his father, a naval officer, was stationed. As a child he began a normal Italian art education in Carrara. In 1914, at the age of eighteen, Peppino Gino Mangravite decided in New York City afterward his father. He had already completed six years of testing at the Scuole Techiniche Belle Arti in his indigenous Italy, where coursework included the psychiatry of anatomy and Renaissance fresco techniques. Upon beginning in New York, he enrolled at Cooper Union, and by 1917 was studying under Robert Henri at the Art Students League.

He normal Guggenheim Fellowships in 1932 and 1935.

In 1962 he exhibited his play a role at a two man operate with Kenneth Evatt at Lehigh University at the invitation of Professor Francis Quirk.

Mangravite was involved in New Deal art programs. He painted murals for the Department of Labor in Washington, D.C., and for read out offices in Hempstead, New York and Atlantic City, New Jersey. In the 1950s he executed a mosaic mural for the main altar at the Shrine of St. Anthony in Boston, Massachusetts.

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