Popolizio - Vincent

Popolizio, Vincent (1914-?)

Vincent Popolizio was born in 1914 in New Haven, Connecticut. He attended New Haven Public School and went on to attend the Yale School of Fine Arts where he received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1937. Popolizio was assigned to the WPA Federal Arts Project in 1939, working on the WPA Silk Screen Poster Project before being assigned to the Art Project. Under the WPA he completed 25 easel works, mainly watercolors. After the WPA he painted in the abstract style and exhibited his paintings in New York City and Connecticut. Popolizio’s date of death is unknown, though the Social Security Death Index suggests that he may have died in 2006.

Sources: WPA Artist’s Work Card; WPA Biography; Social Security Death Index; “Varied Art Shows Listed This Week,” New York Times, February 16, 1953; “Artists Here Hold To Middle Ground,” New York Times, February 20, 1953; “Museum to Mark 25th Anniversary,” New York Times, October 17, 1954.

Works of Art Listed in CT Archives’ database from Vincent Popolizio:

Popolizio, Vincent