Charles Salerno Rare Original Vintage Post War Contemporary American Sculptural Relief Oil Painting

Rare, original vintage sculptural relief oil painting  on canvas by American Post War Contemporary artist Charles Salerno, (1916-1990). The oil painting is approximately 20" x 30" and is on Grumbacher New York canvas. The subject of the artwork has a metaphysical and spiritual quality of the subject while also.appearing as a light source above as a source of light illuminating a myriad of progressively changing colors resembling stained glass. The painting is signed in the far right corner where the artist's signature was impressed into the paint during creation. The painting is estimated to have been created in approximately 1948, when Salerno earned a Tiffany Foundation Grant.

Salerno studied at the prestigious Art Students League of New York. He also studied at the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere in Paris, the Escuela de Pintura y Escultura in Mexico City and the University of New York. Salerno served in the Army Air Corps in World War Ii and soon after had his first solo exhibition at the Weyhe Gallery in New York. In 1948, he earned a Tiffany Foundation grant. Salerno married the painter Frances Christoph in 1952. He taught at Adelphi College and was appointed to the faculty of New York College in 1964. His artwork is exhibited in the collections of the Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, The Museum of the Rhode Island School.of.Design, St. Simon's Episcopal Church, The Grand Rapids Art Museum, and the Kalamazoo Art Museum, among others.

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