Attilio Pusterla (

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, Italy, 1862 – Woodcliff, New Jersey, United States, 1941) was an Italian painter. By 1880, he attended the

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alongside

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and

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. He allied himself to the style and subjects of Vittore Grubicy and resided in Milan. In 1883, in Milan and

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, Pusterla exhibited ''Effetto di sole''. Also in Rome, he displayed another canvas depicting ''Motterone sul Lago Maggiore''. At the 1886 Promotrice (and in 1887 in Venice) he sent ''Vecchio pescatore'', ''La questua dei poreri'' and ''Dopo una predica''. At 1886 in Milan, he sent ''Portrait of his father'' and ''Portrait of painter Gustavo Macchi''. He then began

genre painting Genre painting (or petit genre) is the painting of genre art, which depicts aspects of everyday life by portraying ordinary people engaged in common activities. One common definition of a genre scene is that it shows figures to whom no identity ca ...

figures of contemporary working class life, including ''Cucine Economiche'', ''An English Marriage in a Cemetery'' and the ''Bevitrici di Sangue''. Pusterla's social content did not gain him economic success, so by 1900 he had moved to the United States. Among his works in North America were some of the frescoes on the

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, as well as frescoes in the

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.Collections of Parliament
As part of

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-sponsored projects employing artists, he directed many of the frescoes for the New York County Supreme Courthouse on

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1862 births 1941 deaths Painters from Milan Italian genre painters 19th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 20th-century Italian painters Brera Academy alumni Italian emigrants to the United States 19th-century Italian male artists 20th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-19thC-stub