$9,500

Virgil Cantini painted metal windmill sculpture.

Base: 31” Dia x 96”H

Virgil David Cantini (1919–2009) was an enamelist and sculptor. He was well known for innovation with enamel and steel and received both local and national recognition for his work. A native of Italy, Cantini and his family emigrated to Weirton, West Virginia in the 1920s. He initially attended Manhattan College in New York before transferring to Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon). In 1956, the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts named Cantini the region's Artist of the Year and he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1957. By 1959, Cantini was considered among the most prominent contemporary enamelists, with his work included regularly in New York's Museum of Contemporary Crafts exhibitions

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