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A modernist painter from St. Louis, Edward Boccia was part of a group of artists who adopted the expressionist style of Max Beckmann in the late 1940s. Boccia later taught at the St. Louis School of Fine Art.
The following is from Gary Wayne Golden:
Edward E. Boccia (1921- )
Professor Emeritus, School of Art, Washington University, St. Louis
Lives in Webster Groves, MOAmerican colorist/expressionist figurative painter best known for large
triptychs and polyptychs, many with themes related to Catholic mysticism. His work is included in the collections of the St. Louis Art
Museum, the Denver Art Museum, the Nelson-Atkins Museum (Kansas City,
MO), the National Pinakothek (Athens) and over 600 private collections.
1921: Born June 22 in Newark, New Jersey
1938: Attended Art Students League, New York, NY
1939: Awarded Fawcett Memorial Scholarship to Pratt Institute, NY
1942-45: First Army, Special Troops, 603rd Engineer Camouflage
Battalion, E.T.O., Normandy invasion
1948: B.S., Columbia University, NY
1948: Dean, Columbus Art School, OH and Instructor in Painting and Drawing
1951: Asst. Dean, School of Fine Arts, Washington University, St. Louis
and Instructor in Painting
1952: M.A., Columbia University, NY
1954: Professor of Painting and Drawing, School of Fine Arts, Washington
University, St. Louis
1955: Awarded St. Louis Art Museum Purchase Prize and Morton D. May
Purchase Prize
1958: Awarded the Borsa di Studio by Italian government for painting in Italy
1959: Attended L’Academia di Belle Arti, Rome, Italy
1960: Guest Instructor, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
1964: Commissioned for mural, stained glass windows and stations of the
Cross, Newman Chapel, Washington University, St. Louis
1965: Guest Instructor, Webster College, Webster Groves, MO
1966: Commissioned for four mural paintings, First National Bank, St.
Louis, MO
1967: CBS national television, “Eye on Art”
1969: 10 Year Retrospective Exhibition, Spanish Pavilion, St. Louis, MO
1970: Guest Instructor, Fontbonne College, St. Louis, MO
1972: Exhibition of Drawings, Galleria Tornabuoni, Florence, Italy
1976: Bicentennial Invitational Traveling Exhibition, Missouri
1979: Knighted to the Cavaliere Al Merito Della Republica by the
Republic of Italy
1979: Honorary Vice President, St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO
1981: Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings, Dada Gallery, Athens, Greece
1982: Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings, Nornberg Gallery of
Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO
1983: Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings, Mitchell
Museum, Mt. Vernon, Illinois
1985: Retrospective Exhibition of Triptychs and Polyptychs, Washington
University (St. Louis) Gallery of Art, St. Louis University and
Fontbonne College Gallery, St. Louis, MO