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Federico Castellon
Spanish, 1914 - 1971
Painter, engraver, draughtsman, lithographer, illustrator, sculptor. Murals.
Federico Castellón's family settled in Brooklyn in 1921. Federico graduated in 1933 from Erasmus Hall Gallery School in Brooklyn and, in 1934, was awarded a four-year Spanish government scholarship which enabled him to travel in Europe. He was awarded a Guggenheim scholarship in 1940. Castellón started engraving in 1941 and sculpting from 1958. He was conscripted into the US Army in 1942 and served until 1946. After the war ended, he embarked on a teaching career at Columbia University, the Pratt Institute and Queens College in New York. Federico Castellón was elected to membership of the National Academy in 1949 and of the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1968. He was the recipient of numerous other awards and distinctions.
Federico Castellón produced illustrations for Life Magazine and illustrated a number of major books, including Pearl S. Buck's The Man Who Changed China: The Story of Sun Yat-Sen (published by Random House in New York in 1954); O. M. Price's Story of Marco Polo (Gosset & Dunlap, New York, 1954); Antoine de St-Exupéry's Little Prince (MacMillan & Co., New York, 1954); P. Gordon's Story of J. J. Audubon (Gosser & Dunlap, New York, 1955); and Sir Walter Scott's The Talisman (limited editions). Castellón frequently had his etchings and, in particular, his lithographs printed at the Desjorbert Atelier in Paris.
"CASTELLÓN, Federico." In Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Oxford Art Online, http://www.oxfordartonline.com.proxy.lib.fsu.edu/subscriber/article/benezit/B00033612 (accessed April 16, 2012).
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