About this Work
Pondering St. Mark’s, Venice
Oil on canvas50 x 46 inches
CollectionPermanent Collection
On display atOn Loan to the Italian Consulate
About the Artist
American
b. 1912 San Francisco, California
d. 2009 Kentfield, CaliforniaStanley Galli was born January 18, 1912, in San Francisco. He attended the California School of Fine Arts (now the San Francisco Art Institute) and the Art Center School in Los Angeles (now the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena). His illustration career began in the late 1930s in San Francisco. Galli was a prolific illustrator for such magazines as the Saturday Evening Post and Ladies’ Home Journal and created 26 wildlife postage stamps, four of which won the award for Best U.S. Commemorative Stamp Issue of 1972. He was inducted into the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame in 1981 and later won acclaim for his paintings of ancient Italy and the Spanish colonial period in California.
b. 1912 San Francisco, California
d. 2009 Kentfield, CaliforniaStanley Galli was born January 18, 1912, in San Francisco. He attended the California School of Fine Arts (now the San Francisco Art Institute) and the Art Center School in Los Angeles (now the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena). His illustration career began in the late 1930s in San Francisco. Galli was a prolific illustrator for such magazines as the Saturday Evening Post and Ladies’ Home Journal and created 26 wildlife postage stamps, four of which won the award for Best U.S. Commemorative Stamp Issue of 1972. He was inducted into the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame in 1981 and later won acclaim for his paintings of ancient Italy and the Spanish colonial period in California.
He and his wife, Frances, also a painter, shared time between their residence in Kentfield and a 16th century farmhouse in the Tuscan hills from 1968 to 1995. Galli’s art hangs in the Pentagon, the Baseball Hall of Fame and other places of note; his work has been shown at the Smithsonian Institution, the New York Historical Society and the Grand Central Gallery in New York.
