1908 - 1998
Like his brother Antonio, Giovanni Martino studied at the La France Art Institute, the Graphic Sketch Club, and the Spring Garden Institute, all in Philadelphia. He then apprenticed himself to the lithographer W. F. Schoonmaker, and joined Martino Commercial Art Studios, founded by his father.
He was a painter of the small town scene and specialized in scenes of Manayunk, an industrial suburb of Philadelphia. The critics have termed Giovanni's work as poetic in contrast to the more dramatic work of his brother.
He won the S.J. Wallace Truman Prize for Price Street in 1942, and the Carnegie Prize for At the Crossing in 1947, both from the National Academy of Design.
He was a painter of the small town scene and specialized in scenes of Manayunk, an industrial suburb of Philadelphia. The critics have termed Giovanni's work as poetic in contrast to the more dramatic work of his brother.
He won the S.J. Wallace Truman Prize for Price Street in 1942, and the Carnegie Prize for At the Crossing in 1947, both from the National Academy of Design.
