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name: Cuneo

vorname: Rinaldo

wikidata-repräsentation: Q4618391

gnd-repräsentation: 11911111

biografische angaben: *July 2, 1877, † December 27, 1939, dubbed the Painter of San Francisco, American artist known for his landscape paintings and murals

Born in San Francisco to a family of artists, Cuneo studied at the Mark Hopkins Institute with Arthur Mathews before attending the Academie Colarossi in Paris from 1911-1913. Upon his return to California, Cuneo’s works were well received at the Panama Pacific International Exhibition in 1915. Later, he involved in every major art exhibition in the San Francisco area from 1916-1939. Also during these years, Cuneo was the subject of numerous one-man shows in various cities on both sides of the Atlantic including Rome, Los Angeles, London, and Paris. Called “the Painter of San Francisco,” at the inaugural exhibition of the San Francisco Museum of Art in 1935, Cuneo had the most number of paintings displayed by any early California artist. In that same exhibition, his painting, "California Hills" won the Museum’s Purchase Prize award. A pure impressionist early in his career, Cuneo’s style constantly evolved throughout his life as he was always seeking out and assimilating the various innovations of representation.