Peter Agostini (February 13, 1913

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– March 27, 1993) was an American sculptor.

Life

Agostini studied at the

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in 1935 and 1936. He taught sculpture and painting at the

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, the

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, and the

Parsons School of Design Parsons School of Design, known colloquially as Parsons, is a private art and design college located in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City. Founded in 1896 after a group of progressive artists broke away from established Manhatt ...

. His works are in the

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, the

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, the

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, the

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, the

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden is an art museum beside the National Mall, in Washington, D.C., the United States. The museum was initially endowed during the 1960s with the permanent art collection of Joseph H. Hirshhorn. It was desig ...

and the

Walker Art Center The Walker Art Center is a multidisciplinary contemporary art center in the Lowry Hill neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. The Walker is one of the most-visited modern and contemporary art museums in the United States and, to ...

. His work has been exhibited in a number of galleries, including the Anita Shapolsky Gallery, Olaf Clasen Gallery, and Salander O’Reilly Galleries, in New York City. Watercolorist

Ellen Murray Ellen Murray (born 1947) is an American watercolorist. Her name is sometimes given as Ellen Murray Meissinger. Born in Raleigh, North Carolina, Murray studied at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, receiving her bachelor of fine arts i ...

studied with Agostini. Peter Agostini is the father of actress Diana Agostini (The Godfather: Part III (1990), The Irishman (2019)).

References

External links

"Oral history interview with Peter Agostini, 1968"
''Archives of American Art''

''The Artist Profiles Project'', January 31, 2010 *http://www.artnet.com/artists/peter-agostini/past-auction-results *https://web.archive.org/web/20110707144735/http://www.anitashapolskygallery.com/agostini.html *http://artcritical.com/2006/06/01/peter-agostini/ 1913 births People from Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan 1993 deaths Artists from New York City Columbia University faculty University of North Carolina at Greensboro faculty Parsons School of Design faculty 20th-century American sculptors 20th-century American male artists American male sculptors Sculptors from New York (state) {{US-sculptor-stub