He began the study of Art at the Eric Pape Art School, Boston, painting with George L. Noyes and other painters. He began studying sculpture in Boston. In 1910, he went on a study tour of Spain and France with Prof. R. R. Goodell of Simmonds College, Boston. In 1912 he was sent by his patron, William A Read of New York, to study sculpture in Rome, where he worked under Angelo Zanelli and studied the Masters in the museums. He served in the Italian Army from 1915 to 1919, spending 31 months at the front. During this time he did sculpture portraits of two of his generals, and a bronze relief honoring a lieutenant who was killed on a dangerous mission. After the war, he worked a short while in Rome and then returned to the United States. On his return from Rome he continued to work in sculpture. He exhibited in the following national exhibitions: click here to see Antonio's video studio views. Quite remarkable, even though dated.
1920’s National Academy of Design,
Antonio Salemme was born in Gaeta, Italy, November 2,1892. After the death of his mother, he moved to Newton, Mass. with his father in 1904.
National Sculpture Society
1929,
1930 Art Institute of Chicago
1928 Palace of Legion of Honor, San Francisco
1930’s Whitney Museum, New York City
1932,1933, 1934, 1935 Salon d’Automne, Salon des Tuileries, and
Gallerie Zac in Paris, France
1930- 1950 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
1950 Metropolitan Museum of New York
1931 Sculpture, Ferargil Gallery, New York
1935 Sculpture and drawings. Ehrich-Newhouse Gallery, New York
1937 Sculpture and drawings. Findlay Gallery, New York
1939 Sculpture and drawings. Wakefield Bookshop Gallery,
New York
1950 Sculpture, paintings, and drawings, Wellons Gallery, New York
1961 Paintings, Sagittarius Gallery, New York
1964 Sculpture and drawings. Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York
1972 Paintings, sculpture and drawings. Historical Cultural Center, Gaeta, Italy
1972 Paintings, sculpture, and drawings. Fahlnaes Gallery,
International Trade Fair, Gothenburg, Sweden
1979 Paintings and sculpture. Edward-Dean Museum of Decorative
Arts, Cherry Valley, California
1980 Paintings and Sculpture. The Yellow Box Gallery, New York
...numerous exhibitions of 2 or more artists and represented in
many permanent collections including the Metropolitan Museum of
Art; The Newark Museum, Newark, N.J.; Bronze portrait of Ethel
Waters at Yale University; Bronze portrait of Pres. Dwight D
Eisenhower at Columbia University, National Headquarters of the
Republican Party, Washington D.C., USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, CVN 89; Bronze portrait of Vilhjalmur Steffansson, Manitoba Centnial Center, Winnipeg, Canada; Bronze portrait of Pres. John F.
Kennedy, Kennedy Library, Boston;Bronze portrait of Paul
Robeson, Fine Arts Collection, Rutgers University; and many
private collections.