Portrait
Rudy Pozzatti
1965
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etching-softground and liftground aquatint (zinc) in sienna and black
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Larry Dale Arnold, Indianapolis, IN
Accession Number
1978.37.10
About the Artist
Rudy Pozzatti
Rudolph Otto "Rudy" Pozzatti, born on January 14, 1925, in Telluride, Colorado, to Italian immigrants Mary Mimiolla and Innocente Pozzatti, grew up in a mining town where his early passion for drawing blossomed despite limited formal instruction. A valedictorian graduate of Silverton High School in 1942, he earned a scholarship to the University of Colorado at Boulder, studying art until World War...