Antonio Gattorno

Antonio Gattorno (March 15, 1904 – April 5, 1980) was a Cuban painter. He was a distinguished member of the first generation of modern Cuban painters.

Early life He studied at the San Alejandro Academy of Fine Arts in Havana before winning a scholarship, in 1919, which allowed him to travel to Europe for further study. At the time "he was the youngest person ever to win a Cuban government scholarship for the study of art in Europe." His first exhibition in the United States, in 1936, was sponsored by Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passos. In 1940 he married Portuguese-American Isabella Cabral and moved to Greenwich Village; he visited Cuba again only in 1946, but spent the next thirty years in New York City. He remained in the United States for most of the rest of his career, in the process alienating many in the Cuban art community. He died in New Bedford, Massachusetts on April 5, 1980.