Peter S. Pezzati
| Pietro Pezzati | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Peter S. Pezzati September 18, 1902 |
| Died | February 19, 1993 (aged 90) |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Child-Walker School of Arts and Crafts |
| Known for | Painting |
Peter S. Pezzati aka Pietro Pezzati (September 18, 1902 - February 19, 1993) was an American portrait painter who was located in the Boston area. His art was rooted in the Renaissance tradition. His artwork included landscapes, pen and ink drawings, watercolors, pastel and oil portraits.
He was born Peter S. Pezzati to Italian immigrant parents, Sisto and Cesarina (Opizzi) Pezzati, in Roxbury, Massachusetts. He was baptised by the Italian priest Father Pasquale Di Milla in 1902.
Pezzati graduated from Boston College High School in 1917 where he studied both Latin and Greek. He was to eventually master six languages. He then won a scholarship to the Child-Walker School of Arts and Crafts in Boston; there he studied under American painter Charles Hopkinson, who took him on as an assistant.
In the mid-1920s he taught art at the Child-Walker School for two years, then went on a six-month traveling and painting tour of Europe, especially France and Italy, arriving back in Boston just in time to attend his sister Josephine's wedding on February 19, 1928, where he was the best man of Bruno Ferroli. He continued to apprentice under Hopkinson, and worked at Hopkinson's Fenway studio.
Pezzati painted many eminent Bostonians and Americans such as Ralph Lowell,William L. Kenly, Willard Van Orman Quine, and Austin Warren. His paintings are hanging in institutions across the United States, including Massachusetts General Hospital, Symphony Hall, The Massachusetts Historical Society, The Museum of Fine Arts in BostonHarvard University, and the Smithsonian Institution. His portraits have also been exhibited at the Margaret Brown and Vose Galleries in Boston, at the Corcoran Biennial in Washington, D.C. at various times from 1930 to 1939, the Pennsylvania Academy Exhibition, the 1939 World's Fair, Yale University Art Gallery and the National Gallery of Art in Washington.
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