Louis Bosa

American (1905-1981)

Born in Codroipo, Italy in 1905, genre, figure and landscape painter and respected teacher Louis Bosa studied at the Academia di Belli Arti in Venice and later at the Art Students League in New York City where he was influenced by Director and Ashcan School painter, John Sloan.

A member of the National Academy of Design, Salons of America and Audubon Society of Artists, Bosa exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, International, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, National Academy of Design, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Rockport Art Association and Salons of America, among others. In 1951, Bosa accepted an assignment from Life magazine to paint the local people and scenes from his hometown of Codroipo, Italy, near Venice.

Bosa taught at the Art Students League in New York, Cape Ann School in Rockport, Massachusetts, Cleveland Institute of Art, Parsons School of Design, Syracuse University and University of Notre Dame. His works are held in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, James A. Michener Art Museum, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Worcester Art Museum, Butler Institute of American Art, Montclair Art Museum and University of Illinois, among others.