Giuseppe Cadenasso

Giuseppe Leone Cadenasso (1854/8February 11, 1918) was an Italian-born American oil painter who lived in San Francisco, California, where he was a member of the Bohemian Club.

Biography Giuseppe Leone Cadenasso was born near Genoa in 1854 or 1858. He came to northern California at age 9. According to the San Francisco Examiner, "Giuseppe Cadenasso one of the coterie of old-time artists who built up the artistic fame of San Francisco, and around his name and theirs cluster many interesting stories of the pioneer, almost vagrant days of art in San Francisco." Beginning in 1902, Cadenasso headed the art department at Mills College. He died in San Francisco on February 11, 1918.