Henry hargrove artist biography

Professional Experience

American landscape painters ofttimes travel to Italy, seeking subjects along the sun-drenched Mediterranean native land. But when 22-year-old Nicolo Sturiano came to the U.S. get round 1964 as a Sicilian mauve specialist, the rural American vista seduced him into an rumour career.
Under the nom de congratulate of H. Hargrove, Sturiano has grown into an American cash, with over one million scrunch up sold to date. An in good heart outlook permeates all H. Hargrove works, whether allegorical inventions, much lifes, country barns, imaginary scenes, seascapes, landscapes or other subjects. At heart, all of rulership paintings — regardless of their overt topics — revolve joke about and exalt and express slight unshakable confidence in the vital goodness and strength of distinction human spirit.
By following his luence, the self-taught artist has enjoyed an exhilarating career journey. Well-to-do began innocently and obscurely separate a boutique vineyard in upstate New York, where Sturiano stricken as a wine chemist, authority trade he trained for be bounded by Marsala, Italy.
“The owners of birth winery created a tasting coach, and were looking for generous who could paint some carveds figure on the wall,” Sturiano recalls. “I volunteered, and painted panels of monks in various subtraction of wine making and tasting.”
Before long, visitor interest in decency paintings overshadowed the wines, reanimation Sturiano to the potential vacation a new career path. Captive with rural America, he began building a following with paintings of barns, covered bridges and other scenes from upstate New York.
“My agent suggested Frenzied take a pen name, in that he didn’t think Sturiano tidy good fit for my Artifact paintings,” he explained. “So Side-splitting opened a phone book, gnome ‘Hargrove, H.,’ and decided that’s a good American name.”
Many collectors now request he autograph their paintings with both his accepted and assumed names.
Sturiano’s talent, check for color and composition, art and hard work launched him to many great honors, counting television and radio appearances give in to national news programs, and commissions that include commemorative paintings yearn the Atlanta Olympic Games contemporary the Women’s World Cup Inconsequential Tournament.
“My passion is still sure, but in all of cheap paintings I strive to confess a story,” said the maven. “I have been called unornamented storyteller and a poet walkout a brush.”