Oronzio Maldarelli

Born in Naples, Italy, Oronzio Maldarelli immigrated with his family to New York in 1905. He worked as a jeweler’s apprentice by day and attended painting and sculpture classes by night at The Cooper Union and the National Academy of Design. He later studied sculpture at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design in New York City, and in 1931 won a Guggenheim Fellowship to study classical sculpture abroad. Maldarelli went on to teach at Columbia University and Sarah Lawrence College. Today, his sculptures are held in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the Art Institute of Chicago.