Oronzio Maldarelli

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Oronzio Maldarelli was an Italian born American sculpter and artist. He was born in 1892. He came to the United States from Naples, Italy as a child. He died in 1963 at the age of 71.


At age fourteen, he took lessons in drawing and clay modeling. After two years, he started to study at the National Academy of Design with Leon Kroll, Ivan Olinsky, and Hermon McNeil. In 1912, he entered the Beaux-Arts Institute. It was there that Jo Davidson and Elie Nadelman helped him out. He was a great artist at everything. In 1935, he turned his focus to just sculpting. Maldarelli is best known for sculptures of female forms that have great detail. He was a teacher at Columbia University for many years.

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