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In 2016,  my grandfather's work as a WPA muralist in the 1930's was re-discovered 33 years after his death. This blog is an aggregation of articles and museum exhibitions that include notes about  Joseph Rugolo, an American artist of Italian descent who lived in Brooklyn, New York and worked as a WPA mural artist and as a political activist through his art.  Here for the first time, a selection of images from his art archives are featured online, including hand-forged iron Giacometti-esque sculptures, created on the sly when he worked as welder at the Brooklyn Naval Yard in the 1940's, urban landscape paintings, portraits, and abstract paper collages will be featured here, along with personal anecdotes about his life written by his son, Jack Rudloe
Stephanie Rudloe Regalado
Cambridge, MA 
April 28, 2017

 For more information about the private collection of art by Joseph Rugolo
please contact: stephanierudloe@gmail.com
from the Joseph Rugolo archives:
newspaper clipping with image of his mural for NYC subway art  created for the
the Public Use of Arts Committee of the United American Artists
& the New York Federal Art Project
 part of a group exhibition with fifty artists at the  Museum of Modern Art, 1936

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