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Robert De Niro Sr. was born in Syracuse, New York, to an Irish-American mother, Helen M. (née O'Reilly; 1899–1999). Helen's mother was Mary E. Burns (born to John and Mary Burns) and her father was Dennis Francis O'Reilly, born to Dundrum's Ellen Hall, the second wife of Edward O'Reilly. [4]
Robert De Niro, Sr. was an American abstract expressionist painter who studied with Josef Albers and Hans Hofmann. He was the father of actor Robert De Niro and had a gay relationship with poet Robert Duncan.
- American
- May 3, 1922
- Syracuse, New York, United States
- May 3, 1993
May 3, 1993 · Painter, sculptor and poet Robert De Niro, Sr. was a substantial contributor to post-war American art for his dedication to painterly representation. While his contemporaries eschewed the figurative style of the Old Masters, De Niro reveled in it. Yet, he manipulated this representative imagery in highly imaginative ways, using reality as a ...
- American
- May 3, 1922
- Syracuse, New York
- May 3, 1993
ROBERT DE NIRO, SR (left) STUDIED WITH HANS HOFMANN, 1939-1942. Born in 1922 in Syracuse, New York, Robert De Niro Sr. showed an innate artistic ability, provided with a private studio while attending art classes at the Syracuse Museum from age eleven to fifteen. In the summer of 1938, he studied with the artist Ralph Pearson in Gloucester ...
Jul 17, 2014 · July 17, 2014. Thanks to the promotional efforts of his son, the actor Robert De Niro, the painter Robert De Niro Sr. (1922-93) is getting some well-deserved posthumous attention. A documentary in ...
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Robert De Niro, Sr. Robert De Niro, Sr. was an American painter who blended gestural abstraction with observed colors and forms. Influenced by the work of Henri Matisse, De Niro embraced the sumptuousness of early-20th-century French painting within a mellowed form of Abstract Expressionism. “The whole idea of ‘action painting’ is foreign ...
ROBERT DE NIRO, SR (1922-1993) 1922. Born in Syracuse, NY. 1933–37. Attends art classes at the Syracuse Museum, is provided with a room at the museum to work independently. 1938. At age sixteen, spends summer at Ralph Pearson’s art school in Gloucester, MA. 1939.