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Conrad MARCA-RELLI
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Conrad Marca-Relli (1913-2000) was an American artist who belonged to the early generation of New York School Abstract Expressionist artists and is best known for his dynamic large-scale collage paintings. Born Corrado Marcarelli to Italian immigrants in Boston, his family moved in 1926 to New York where he studied at a private art school and briefly at the Cooper Union. He worked for the Works Progress Administration, through which he met artists Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline. In 1947 he received his first solo exhibition at the Niveau Gallery. He became active in the avant-garde Greenwich Village art scene, but as his career progressed, he increasingly distanced himself from the New York School. Marca-Relli taught at Yale University and University of California at Berkeley in the 1950s, but eventually, after living and working in many countries, moved to Parma, Italy. His work is in the collections of the Guggenheim Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
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