Sylvia Spicuzza

The Gallery seeks a photo and additional biographical information of Sylvia Spicuzza, as well as early (1930-1940), regionalist paintings. Contact us at: info@GalleryofWisconsinArt.com

BORN: 1908

DIED: 1998

Sylvia Spicuzza will forever be known first as the the artistic daughter of noted painter Francesco Spicuzza.

After that, she was a career educator, devoting herself to teaching art at Lake Bluff Elementary School in Shorewood, WI.

She received her educational training and MFA from Northwestern University in Illinois. 

During her education and teaching years, from the 1920's to the 1990's, Sylvia produced a magnificent body of work that was pretty much undiscovered until her death.

Stylistically, Sylvia's work is diverse and fascinating, in all 2D media include drawings, watercolors and prints.

She ranges from early figurative drawings to regionalism, art deco, lyrical abstractions of every conceivable subject - real and imagined - as well as figurative paintings that reflect the work of Picasso and Ernest Max in the 1930's and 1940's.

Biomorphic and organic, her Modernist images are presented with her own unique sense of style, humor and fantasy.

Image credit: Sylvia Spicuzza self-portrait 1936