Peppino Mangravite

{{short description|American painter}}

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Peppino Mangravite (June 28, 1896 – April 26, 1978){{cite book|title=Who was who in America|publisher=Marquis-Who's Who|year=1993|page=225}} was an Italian-American Modernist painter.{{Cite web |url=http://www.phillipscollection.org/research/american_art/bios/mangravite-bio.htm |title=Peppino Mangravite - Bio |access-date=2021-01-05 |archive-date=2016-10-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161009010207/http://www.phillipscollection.org/research/american_art/bios/mangravite-bio.htm |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web|url=https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/peppino-mangravite-papers-7979/biographical-note|title=Biographical Note | A Finding Aid to the Peppino Mangravite papers, 1918-1982|website=www.aaa.si.edu}}{{Cite web|url=https://art.state.gov/personnel/peppino_mangravite/|title=Peppino Mangravite – U.S. Department of State}}

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 traditional Italian art education in Carrara.{{Cite web|date=16 March 2021|title=Art in Embassis Peppino Mangravite|url=https://art.state.gov/personnel/peppino_mangravite/|website=Art in Embassies}} In 1914, at the age of eighteen, Peppino Gino Mangravite settled in New York City with his father. He had already completed six years of study at the Scuole Techiniche Belle Arti in his native Italy, where coursework included the study of anatomy and Renaissance fresco techniques. Upon arrival in New York, he enrolled at Cooper Union, and by 1917 was studying under Robert Henri at the Art Students League.

He received Guggenheim Fellowships in 1932 and 1935.{{Cite web|url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/peppino-mangravite/|title=John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Peppino Mangravite}}

In 1962 he exhibited his work at a two man show with Kenneth Evatt at Lehigh University at the invitation of Professor Francis Quirk.{{Cite news|date=12 October 1962|title=Evatt-Mongravite Show in Art Gallery Nov. 4|work=Brown and White|url=https://bwarchive.lib.lehigh.edu/?a=d&d=BW19621012-01&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-francis+quirk+1962+------|access-date=16 March 2021}}

Mangravite was involved in New Deal art programs. He painted murals for the Department of Labor in Washington, D.C., and for post 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.{{Cite web|title=Peppino Mangravite Papers 1918-1982 Biographical Note|url=https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/peppino-mangravite-papers-7979/biographical-note|access-date=17 March 2021|website=Archives of American Art}}

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