{"Id":7479,"Name":"Paul DeLorenzo","Biography":"Paul DeLorenzo was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1947. He graduated from preparatory school in Massachusetts and then entered art school in Boston. Like other talented students at the time, he was dissatisfied with the modernist indoctrination which had replaced the teaching of drawing and painting in these institutions. Desperate for knowledge, he left art school to copy old masters at the museums in Boston in an attempt to teach himself. While copying a painting by Velasquez in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, he met R. H. Ives Gammell. The following day Gammell invited him to join his studio school. DeLorenzo subsequently continued his studies in Minneapolis with Richard Lack, the first full-time student in Atelier Lack\u0027s inaugural group. After four years he returned to Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey, and established himself as a noted still life and portrait painter. In 1981 he was awarded a scholarship from the John F. and Anna Lee Stacy Foundation. His other honors include the Newington Award from the American Artists Professional League Grand National Exhibition in 1976. He was also a member of The American Society of Classical Realism\u0027s Guild of Artists. DeLorenzo became a respected teacher and moved to Southern Pines, North Carolina, where he taught for a short time with D. Jeffrey Mims at Mims Studios. He also taught painting workshops along the East Coast. He later moved to Greensboro and spent his final years painting works for Ebenezer Lutheran Church.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EPaul was a man of keen intellect and insight and a portrait painter of the first rank. His portraits may be found in the permanent collection of the Salmagundi Club in New York, The National Museum of the U.S. Navy in Washington, D.C., the Wright State University School of Medicine in Dayton, Ohio, Monmouth University in West Long Branch, New Jersey, Penobscot County Courthouse in Bangor, Maine, and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts. Paul continued the tradition of artistic excellence that he inherited from his teachers, enriched with his own deep understanding of the great art of the past. De Lorenzo passed away unexpectedly on Saturday, March 9, 2013, at his home in Greensboro, North Carolina.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003Eby Stephen Gjertson\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFor more information, please click \u003Ca href=\u0022/articles/2013/DeLorenzo/Delorenzo.php\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C/a\u003E to read DeLorenzo\u0027s obituary and an previously published interview conducted by Peter Bougie about his experiences in becoming an artist.\u003C/strong\u003E","Awards":null,"HasAlbums":false,"HasPortraits":false,"HasRelationships":false,"HasArticles":false,"HasDepictedPlaces":false,"HasLetters":false,"HasLibraryItems":true,"HasProducts":false,"HasSignatures":false,"HasVideos":false,"HasMapLocations":true,"TotalArtworks":8}