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PAT
De CARO Born and raised in Philadelphia, Pat De Caro attended drawing
classes as a child at the Fleisher Art Memorial school. She studied art, dance, and
philosophy at Temple University and received a B.A. in 1973. She later moved to Seattle to
pursue painting at the University of Washington and received a M.F.A. in 1982.
During this period she studied with Joan Brown during a Masters Painting workshop at
Centrum, Port Townsend on a Ford Foundation grant. After graduate school she lived and
painted in Italy from 1983 to 1985 on a Fulbright Hays Fellowship. In Italy she
researched paintings by Italian masters such as Giotto and Piero della Francesca, she
later maintained a studio in Milan. De Caro has been an artist in residence at the
Mac Dowell Colony in New Hampshire and the Ragdale Foundation Colony
outside Chicago. She was a visiting artist at the Brandywine
Workshop in Philadelphia. |
