Cesare Stea
{{short description|American sculptor}}
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| birth_date = {{birth-date|1893}}
| birth_place = Bari, Italy
| death_date = {{death year and age|1960|1893}}
| death_place = New York City
| nationality = American
| known_for = Sculpture, muralist
| training = Beaux-Arts Institute of Design, Académie de la Grande Chaumière
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Cesare Stea (August 17, 1893 – 1960) was an American sculptor and painter.
Life
Stea was born in Bari, Italy. He studied at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design, National Academy of Design, Cooper Union and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, where he studied with Antoine Bourdelle. He variously studied with Hermon McNeil, Sterling Calder and Solon Borglum.Opitz, Glenn B, editor, Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers, Apollo Book, Poughkeepsie NY, 1986 p. 891
He was a member of the Federal Art Project. He created relief sculptures, "Men and Machines" (1939) in Newcomerstown, Ohio,[http://www.newcomerstown.us/post.office/1939.00.00.post.office.htm Newcomerstown.us The Coshocton Tribune – June 28, 1939. Decorative Bas Relief Is Hung In Lobby of Local Post Office]{{dead link|date=November 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} "Industry" (1941) in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania,[http://www.pa-mag.com/2010/08/26/new-deal-post-office-art-in-pennsylvania-listing/ New Deal Post Office Art in Pennsylvania] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120426070140/http://www.pa-mag.com/2010/08/26/new-deal-post-office-art-in-pennsylvania-listing/ |date=April 26, 2012 }} and "Sculptural Relief" (1936) at Bowery Bay Sewage Disposal Plant.{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B4IZGxdnX0cC&q=Cesare+Stea+artist&pg=PA13| title=Modernism in dispute: art since the Forties| author=Paul Wood| publisher=Yale University Press|year= 1993| isbn= 978-0-300-05522-1 }} His work can also be found in Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and the Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C.{{Cite web|url=http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=1I72I4B702114.11744&profile=ariall&uri=link=3100006~!204279~!3100001~!3100002&aspect=Browse&menu=search&ri=1&source=~!siartinventories&term=Stea%2C+Cesare%2C+1893-1960%2C+sculptor.&index=AUTHOR|title=SIRIS - Smithsonian Institution Research Information System}}
Stea was a member of the National Sculpture Society.
His papers are held at the Archives of American Art.[http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/cesare-stea-papers-8552 Cesare Stea papers at the Archives of American Art]
References
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External links
- [https://www.jstor.org/pss/775543 "New York Sculpture during the Federal Project"], Eleanor Carr, Art Journal, Vol. 31, No. 4 (Summer, 1972), pp. 397–403
- [http://www.askart.com/askart/s/cesare_stea/cesare_stea.aspx Cesare Stea at Ask Art]
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Category:Federal Art Project artists
Category:20th-century American sculptors
Category:20th-century American male artists
Category:American male sculptors
Category:National Sculpture Society members
Category:Sculptors Guild members
Category:Beaux-Arts Institute of Design (New York City) alumni