Nicola Victor Ziroli
(American, 1908-1969)
"Head"
Oil on board
Signed and dated 1939

Permanent Collections:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
IBM
Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, Illinois
Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, Missouri
Butler Institute of American Art
University of Minnesota
University of Nebraska
Washburn-Mulvane Art Museum, Topeka, Kansas
Ohio University, Athens, Ohio
John H. Vanderpoel Art association, Chicago, Illinois
Fenster Collection, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Parker Collection, St. Louis, Missouri

Exhibitions:
Art Institute of Chicago
Cleveland Institute of Art, Ohio
Cheney Cowles Memorial Museum, Spokane, Washington
Chicago World's Fair Exhibition
Corcoan Galleries, Washington, D.C.
Dayton Art Institute, Ohio
Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, California
Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas
Miami Museum of Modern Art, Florida
Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles
National Academy of Design, New York
New Center for Continuing Education, Chicago
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
San Francisco Museum of Art
Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C.
Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts, New York

About the Artist:
Nicola Victor Ziroli was born in Valcocchiato, Campobasso, Italy in 1908. At the age of six, he immigrated with his family to the United States, where his father established a business carving stone monuments. Ziroli first learned stone carving techniques as apprentice to his father, then used his skills as a stone carver for sculptors and construction firms to work his was through school. In 1930, he graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago specializing not in sculpture, but in painting and illustration. In 1934 we received a W.P.A. grant, and over the following 2 years he produced over seventy canvases for the U.S. Government. In 1936, Ziroli became supervisor of the Art and Craft Exhibitions under the W.P.A., continuing in that position until the outbreak of World War II when he served as a camouflage artist, map draftsman, and airplane riveter for the Army. After the war he joined the Art Department at the University of Illinois.

References:
Italian American Who's Who
Who's Who in American Art
Who's Who in Chicago and Vicinity
Who's Who in American Education
Who's Who in America
Who's Who in the Midwest
Who's Who in International Art

Measurements: 16" x 12"
Inventory number: MCB0094
Price: $4,500.00