Signed lower right, 'Gerbino' for Rosario Urbino Gerbino (Italian-American, 1900 - 1972) and painted circa 1935. Born in Italy, Rosario Gerbino first studied at the National Academy of Design with George W. Maynard, Charles L. Hinton and Ivan Olinsky. He subsequently settled in New York City and taught at the Leonardo da Vinci Art School while exhibiting widely and with success nationwide, including at the Salons of America, Society of Independent Artists (at the Jacques Seligmann Gallery), Grand Central Gallery, with the Association of American Artists, Salmagundi Club (prizes), Corcoran Galleries (1926), the National Academy of Design, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (1938), the Art Institute of Chicago, the Allied Artists of America (prizes), and the International World's Fair (Naples, 1952, prize). Gerbino was a member of the Society of Sanity in Art, Bergen County Art Guild (N.J.), Audubon Artists, Salmagundi Club, Allied Artists in America, the Grand Central Galleries and the Academy of Fine Arts. The artist is listed in all relevant reference works and his paintings are held in the permanent collections of prominent national museums including the National Academy of Design and Georgetown University, among others. Reference: Who Was Who in American Art 1564-1975: 400 Years of Artists in America, Peter Hastings Falk, Sound View Press 1999, Vol. 2, page 1269; Mallett’s Index of Artists, Daniel Trowbridge Mallett, Peter Smith: New York 1948 Edition, R.R. Bowker Company 1935, page 156; Davenport’s Art Reference 2009/10 Edition, LTB Gordonsart, Inc. 2008, page 1090; et al.