1885 - 1965
Salvatore came to America as a child and studied in New York at the Art Students League and with A. Phimister Proctor and Charles Niehaus. He gained some public notice when he exhibited works at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair and at the 1913 Armory Show in New York. In 1918, he organized an outdoor art festival in Washington Square Park near his Macdougal Alley studio to raise money for the war effort. That marked the beginning of the tradition of outdoor art shows which still occur annually at Washington Square. During the 1920s and 1930s, Salvatore held a workshop for young artists at the Greenwich House Settlement. Among his bestÄknown works are a heroic bronze statue of James Fenimore Cooper in Cooperstown, New York, and the sculpture The Sandlot Kid for Doubleday Field, also in Cooperstown. His Bust of a Child: Top Knot and Meditation are in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
He began exhibiting at the National Academy in 1910 and continued to show portrait busts and allegorical figures there for many years. In 1919 he was awarded the Academy's Helen Foster Barnett Prize for Big Oak (cat. no. 38).
He began exhibiting at the National Academy in 1910 and continued to show portrait busts and allegorical figures there for many years. In 1919 he was awarded the Academy's Helen Foster Barnett Prize for Big Oak (cat. no. 38).
