biography of Virginia FALCONIERI (1943)

Birth place: Paterson, NJ

Addresses: Hawthorne, NJ

Profession: Painter, instructor

Studied: Entwistle School Art, Ridgewood, NJ, one year; Ridgewood Art School, three years.

Exhibited: Acad. Artists Assn., Mus. Fine Arts, Springfield, MA, 1964; Miniature Painters, Sculptors and Gravers Soc., Washington, DC, 1971; Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, Nat. Art Club, New York, 1971; Allied Artists Am, Nat. Acad. Galleries, New York, 1971; Composers, Authors & Artists Am., New York Chapter, 1972. Awards: Best in Show Gold Medal, Gotham Painters New York, 1968; first prize in traditional oils, Bergen Co. Park Commission, NJ, 1970; third prize, Composers, Authors & Artists Am., 1972.

Member: Associate member Allied Artists Am.; Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club; Composers, Authors & Artists Am.; Miniature Painters, Sculptors & Gravers Soc.; Burr Artists.

Work: Commissions: Mural of the universe, Paterson Mus., 1964.

Comments: Preferred medium: oils. Positions: associate curator art, Paterson Mus., 1964-. Teaching: private classes in oil painting, 1966-.