About Joe Abbrescia
Lived 1936 – 2005 (aged 68). Joe Abbrescia was an American painter.
Joseph L. Abbrescia (October 1, 1936 - February 17, 2005) was an American painter of the American West. By 2002, he had become "one of the country's most accomplished plein-air artists."
Career With his brother, Abbrescia was the co-director of an art school in Skokie, Illinois, from the 1950s to the 1970s, when he moved to Kalispell, Montana, to focus on his own paintings.
Abbrescia won the Best of Show distinction at the C. M. Russell Auction of Original Western Art three times: He also won the Honorary Chairman's Award from the C. M. Russell Museum in Great Falls, Montana, in 2005.
Personal life and death With his wife Sue, Abbrescia had two sons.
Abbrescia died of cancer on February 17, 2005, in Kalispell, Montana, at age 68.
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Who was Joe Abbrescia?
painter (1936-2005)
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Joe Abbrescia was born on 1 October 1936 in New York City.
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Joe Abbrescia died on 17 February 2005 in Kalispell, Montana.
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Joe Abbrescia was a painter.
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