American, 1905 - 1981
Bosa studied at the Academia Delle Belle Arte in Venice, before coming to the United States when he was eighteen years of age. In New York he studied with John Sloan at the Art Students League. He taught at the League, 1944-46; the Cape Ann Art School, Rockport, Massachusetts, 1943-46; and beginning in the mid 1950s, at the Cleveland (Ohio) Institute of Art for a number of years. In summers he regularly returned to Italy, visiting the town of his birth, and nearby Venice, which provided a favored subject matter in his art. Bosa was the recipient of awards from the Pepsi-Cola Company, 1944, 1945, 1948; Hallmark, 1949, 1955, 1957, 1958; among others. In Academy annual exhibitions his paintings received a Carnegie prize, 1954, and Obrig prize, 1961.
