Saverio (Sam) A DiMagno buy Signed LinoCut Art Print of a Man Wearing a Hat #4 - 11" by 13" with Wood Frame

1970 Signed Linocut Art Print by artist, Saverio Achille DiMargo of Hershey, Pennsylvania (1909-2005). The linocut measures 3.5" by 4". It is in a wood frame measuring 11" by 13" total. The matting looks a little dingy from the past 50 years, but the buy artwork looks great. Visit MagnoliaRestorations and MissHattiesChina for many other great treasures from around the globe.

Trained as an artist early in his life, he apprenticed with a muralist in Italy before moving to the United States with his family in 1921. He studied at the Art Students League, Cooper Union and the New York School of Industrial Arts and spent his lifetime creating fine and graphic art, accumulating a voluminous body of work in multi-media. He worked for 19 years in the Hershey Chocolate Factory. His professional experiences included artist-illustrator at the former Telegraph Press and Lebanon Valley Offset, technical manual illustrator for the United States Air Force, Olmstead Air Force Base, visual information specialist for the Office of Economic Opportunity in Washington, DC, illustrator and graphics specialist for the United States Department of the Army, Letterkenny Army Depot. From 1967 to his retirement in 1973, he was the chief of the graphic arts branch, LDSRA, United States Army Depot in New Cumberland.
Selections representing a lifetime of his work including drawings, prints, watercolors and oil paintings were featured in a special exhibit, Community Treasures, the Artwork of Saverio DiMagno at the Hershey Museum in 1999. Throughout this life, his work has been displayed by the Library of Congress and the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts in Maryland among others. During his tenure with the United States Air Force, he was commissioned to create two murals which are permanently displayed at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. Locally, he was commissioned by the Hershey Italian Lodge to create a large mural depicting a Venetian canal scene. He was also commissioned by Penn State University to complete a painting of the Millard Stone Quarry, which is now part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Mineral Sciences, Penn State University, State College.
He was a life member and former officer of the Hershey Italian Lodge and received a lifetime recognition award in 1999. He also received recognition for his lifetime achievements and contributions to the community from the Italian-American OSCI Club.