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 The National Academy of Design is an honorary association of American artists, founded in New York City in 1825 by Samuel Morse, Asher Durand, Thomas Cole, Martin E. Thompson, Charles Cushing Wright, Ithiel Town, and others "to promote the ...

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and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, where he studied with

Antoine Bourdelle Antoine Bourdelle (30 October 1861 – 1 October 1929), born Émile Antoine Bordelles, was an influential and prolific French sculptor and teacher. He was a student of Auguste Rodin, a teacher of Giacometti and Henri Matisse, and an importan ...

. He variously studied with Hermon McNeil, Sterling Calder and Solon Borglum. He was a member of the

Federal Art Project The Federal Art Project (1935–1943) was a New Deal program to fund the visual arts in the United States. Under national director Holger Cahill, it was one of five Federal Project Number One projects sponsored by the Works Progress Administrati ...

. He created relief sculptures, "Men and Machines" (1939) in Newcomerstown, Ohio,Newcomerstown.us The Coshocton Tribune – June 28, 1939. Decorative Bas Relief Is Hung In Lobby of Local Post Office
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, and "Sculptural Relief" (1936) at Bowery Bay Sewage Disposal Plant. His work can also be found in

Whitney Museum of American Art The Whitney Museum of American Art, known informally as "The Whitney", is an art museum in the Meatpacking District and West Village neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City. It was founded in 1930 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875–194 ...

in New York and the

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's National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C. Stea was a member of the National Sculpture Society. His papers are held at the

Archives of American Art The Archives of American Art is the largest collection of primary resources documenting the history of the visual arts in the United States. More than 20 million items of original material are housed in the Archives' research centers in Washing ...

.Cesare Stea papers at the Archives of American Art
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References

External links

"New York Sculpture during the Federal Project"
Eleanor Carr, ''Art Journal'', Vol. 31, No. 4 (Summer, 1972), pp. 397–403
Cesare Stea at Ask Art
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