“Festival,” 1934
"Daniel R. Celentano was a New York, WPA artist and Thomas Hart Benton student. ... Born in 1902 and died in 1980. Daniel Celentano at the age of twelve was Thomas Hart Benton's first and youngest student. Celentano often focused on the Italian neighborhood of NYC where he was born and raised as the subject matter of his drawings, paintings and murals He enjoyed an active career, exhibiting at all the major museums as an accomplished American Scene painter during the WPA and WWII era."
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