Giuseppe Cadenasso

Giuseppe Leone Cadenasso (1854/8 – February 11, 1918) was an Italian-born American oil painter who lived in San Francisco, California, where he was a member of the Bohemian Club.[1]

Cadenasso circa 1900 in Camera Craft

Biography

Giuseppe Leone Cadenasso was born near Genoa in 1854[2] or 1858.[3] He came to northern California at age 9.[2] 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 the San Francisco Art Institute).[3]

He won the gold medal at the 1917 California State Fair.[4] According to the San Francisco Examiner, "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."[5] Beginning in 1902, Cadenasso headed the art department at Mills College.[2][6] He died in San Francisco on February 11, 1918.[2][7]

References
  1. "Woman's Auto Strikes Artist. Giuseppe Cadenasso of Bohemian Club Victim, Put in Car; Collision Follows". The San Francisco Examiner. October 9, 1918. p. 5. Retrieved April 17, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. Hughes, Edan Milton (1986). Artists in California, 1786–1940. San Francisco: Hughes Publishing Company. p. 76. ISBN 0-9616112-0-0. OCLC 13323489.
  3. Hjalmarson, Birgitta (1999). Artful Players: Artistic Life in Early San Francisco. Balcony Press. p. 194. ISBN 1-890449-01-6. OCLC 40450100.
  4. "Cadenasso Paintings Placed on Exhibition". San Francisco Chronicle. November 23, 1918. p. 8. Retrieved April 17, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. Hicks Davidson, Marie (February 17, 1918). "Cadenasso Death Mourned. Demise Loss to Art World". The San Francisco Examiner. p. 21. Retrieved April 17, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. Hart, James D. (1978). A Companion to California. Oxford University Press. p. 60. ISBN 0-19-502256-4. OCLC 3206367.
  7. Samuels, Peggy; Samuels, Harold (1985). Samuels' Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West. Castle. p. 79. ISBN 1-55521-014-7. OCLC 13247401.


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