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American (1904-1981)

Italian born artist Remo Farruggio immigrated to the United States in 1918 and gained American citizenship in 1924.

Farruggio, Remo Michael - Wiscasset Bay Gallery

He received his artistic training at the National Academy of Design and the Beaux-Arts Institution, as well as studying in New York City at the Educational Alliance, the Industrial Art School and with famed Monhegan Island artist Abraham Bogdanove. During the Great Depression Farruggio worked for the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration from 1936 to 1939.

He was one of only two FAP artists to have solo shows, exhibiting at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York City in 1939 and receiving much critical praise. Farruggio continued to exhibit throughout his career, having numerous solo exhibitions and receiving awards at prestigious venues across the country and abroad. Most notably he displayed at the Whitney Museum of America Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, the Nati Farruggio, Remo Michael - Wiscasset Bay Gallery SIC