John lagatta biography

john lagatta biography

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  • John La Gatta (May 26, 1894 – January 21, 1977), also spelled LaGatta, was an advertising illustrator active during the first half of the 20th century.

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  • John La Gatta (May 26, – January 21, ), also spelled LaGatta, was an advertising illustrator active during the first half of the 20th century.

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    The Art of the Post: John La Gatta - The Saturday Evening Post

      One of the most famous illustrators of the early decades of the 20th century, La Gatta depicted the well-heeled in the pages of nearly all the mainstream magazines such as the Saturday Evening Post, Ladies’ Home Journal, and Cosmopolitan, as well as for swank advertising campaigns.
    Biography.
    John La Gatta (May 26, – January 21, ), also spelled LaGatta, was an advertising illustrator active during the first half of the 20th century.
    John La Gatta, also spelled LaGatta, was an advertising illustrator active during the first half of the 20th century.

    John LaGatta - Society of Illustrators

      In reality, John LaGatta came to the US as a poor Italian immigrant, but his lineage, as described by him, was illustrious.

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    • John La Gatta

    American painter (1894–1977)

    John La Gatta (May 26, 1894 – January 21, 1977), also spelled LaGatta, was an advertising illustrator active during the first half of the 20th century.

    Early life

    John La Gatta was born in Naples, Italy, the son of an educated father and a mother from an old and well-connected family which traced their origins back to the Count of Anjou, brother of King Louis IX of France.[1] La Gatta was a sickly child. Around the age of four his mother died in childbirth. The family emigrated to the United States.

    He showed an early talent for art. In the fall of 1909, at the age of 15, he enrolled in the New York School of Fine and Applied Arts (now Parsons School of Design)[2] where he excelled at charcoal draftsman and the portrayal of form and motion. He studied under artists Kenneth Hayes Miller and Frank Alvah Parsons. He was selling sketches to Life magazine to pay for his formal education and after graduation h

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  • John LaGatta (1894 - 1976) was active/lived in New York, California.
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