Peter Reginato (born August 19, 1945), is an American abstract

sculptor Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sc ...

and painter. Reginato was born in

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, but grew up in the hills outside

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, attending the San Francisco Art Institute from 1963 to 1966. In 1970 and in 1973 his work was included in the

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Exhibitions

His work has been shown at: * The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio

Collections

Reginato has work in the permanent collections of the following: * Allen Art Center, Houston, Texas * Brown University * The Corcoran Gallery of Art * The Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. * IBM Corporation * The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art * Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art at

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* The Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Massachusetts *

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* The Mint Museum of Art * The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston * The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

References

External links

Official website
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