Alfred D. Crimi, also known as Alfredo Crimi, (San Fratello, Italy 1900–New York City 1994), was an Italian-American painter.
Early life and education Crimi was born in San Fratello, Sicily, on December 1, 1900. He emigrated to the United States in 1910 and became a US citizen in 1924. He attended the National Academy of Design in New York from 1916 to 1924, and the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design in New York from 1920 to 1921. In 1929, he went to Italy to study fresco and encaustic painting.
Career During World War II, Crimi went to work for Sperry Gyroscope making drawings of weapons and instruments for military training manuals.
After the war, Crimi worked as a painter and watercolorist. His style evolved into abstractionism, including his painting "Metropolis", which "uses rectangular and abstract geometrical forms to represent a modern city." He held numerous shows and was credited with having nine solo shows by 1963 when Francis Quirk organized an exhibit at Lehigh University."Works by Crimi and Anna Quirk To Go on Exhibit Sunday" Brown and White, Lehigh University Student Newspaper Vol. 74 No. 43 — 19 April 1963 Page 5
Crimi painted a number of murals. Notably, he was hired by the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) for the Harlem Hospitals murals project. He also worked for the Public Works of Art Project in Key West, Florida.
Significant murals include: Hampshire County Courthouse mural, Northampton, Massachusetts (1940) Harlem Hospital, New York NY (1940) Post Office Mural, Wayne, Pennsylvania (1941) Clinton Federal Building, Washington DC (1937)
Awards and exhibitions 1923 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Fellowship 1931 Portland Museum, Oregon 1932 De Young Museum, San Francisco 1956 Emily Lowe Prize 1962 Holyoke Museum 1963 Lehigh University Art Galleries 1966 Fordham University 1971 Ringwood Manor Museum Ulrich Museum, Wichita State University
Collections
Butler Museum of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio Brush Art Gallery, St. Lawrence University Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia Columbia Museum, South Carolina Evansvilee Museum of Arts and Science, Evansville, Indiana Forbes Library Collection, Northhampton, Massachusetts Holyoke Museum, Massachusetts Museum of the City of New York Magoichire Chatani - Pres Yamatene International Inc., Tokyo, Japan Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Massachusetts Wisteriahurst Museum Ulrich Museum, Wichita State University Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Oregon Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts Slater Memorial Museum, Norwich Academy, Norwich, Connecticut Smithsonian American Art Museum Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, Missouri University of Syracuse University of MarylandCenter for Migration Studies of New York; Alfred D. Crimi Papers (CMS 088) Wichita State University Museum, Kansas Whitney Museum of American Art
References
External links Alfred D. Crimi papers (1924–1993)
Nautilus, watercolor by Alfred D. Crimi (1947)