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Giuseppe Leone Cadenasso (1854/8February 11, 1918) was an Italian-born American
Giuseppe Leone Cadenasso (1854/8February 11, 1918) was an Italian-born American oil painter
Oil painting is the process of painting with pigments with a medium of drying oil as the binder. It has been the most common technique for artistic painting on wood panel or canvas for several centuries, spreading from Europe to the rest of ...
who lived in San Francisco, California, where he was a member of the Bohemian Club
The Bohemian Club is a private club with two locations: a city clubhouse in the Nob Hill district of San Francisco, California and the Bohemian Grove, a retreat north of the city in Sonoma County. Founded in 1872 from a regular meeting of journal ...
.
Biography
Giuseppe Leone Cadenasso was born near Genoa in 1854 or 1858. He came to northern California at age 9. In San Francisco, he studied with a painter named Joseph Harrison and with Arthur Frank Mathews at the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art (now called theSan Francisco Art Institute
San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) was a private college of contemporary art in San Francisco, California. Founded in 1871, SFAI was one of the oldest art schools in the United States and the oldest west of the Mississippi River. Approximately ...
).
He won the gold medal at the 1917 California State Fair. According to the ''San Francisco Examiner
The ''San Francisco Examiner'' is a newspaper distributed in and around San Francisco, California, and published since 1863.
Once self-dubbed the "Monarch of the Dailies" by then-owner William Randolph Hearst, and flagship of the Hearst Corporat ...
'', "Giuseppe Cadenasso one of the coterie of old-time artists who built up the artistic fame of San Francisco, and around his name and theirs cluster many interesting stories of the pioneer, almost vagrant days of art in San Francisco." Beginning in 1902, Cadenasso headed the art department at Mills College. He died in San Francisco on February 11, 1918.
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* 1850s births 1918 deaths 19th-century Italian painters 20th-century Italian painters Painters from San Francisco Artists of the American West Italian expatriates in the United States Italian male painters 19th-century Italian male artists 20th-century Italian male artists {{US-painter-1850s-stub