Letterio Calapai, master artist [videorecording] / North Shore Productions ; writer and editor, Deb Ellis ; executive producer, Neil P. Charak
odd: label: Publication, Distribution, Etc. (Imprint)
content: Highland Park, Ill. : Highland Park Public Library, 1989, c1990.
label: Series Statement
content: Viewpoints.
name: label: Creator
content: Highland Park Public Library
label: Names
content: Calapai, Letterio, 1902-1993
title: label: Topic
content: Viewpoints
topic: label: Occupation
content: Printmakers -- Illinois -- Chicago
label: Topic
content: Prints -- 20th century -- Technique
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 1990 by the Highland Park Public Library.
creator: label: Creator
content: Highland Park Public Library
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Printmaker, muralist, painter, teacher; Glencoe, Ill.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Item (videocassette (30 min), sd., col., 1/2 in.)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1989, c1990
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.highpark
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Video recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Video recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Filmed in Calapai's studio in Glencoe, Ill. Calapai discusses his work, and demonstrates the printing of an etching. Biographical information is presented, including Calapai's early training, his work as a muralist for the WPA, studying with William Stanley Hayter in New York, his work on illustrations for Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward Angels, his watercolors, and his work on a series of prints of Christ now owned by the Vatican. The video is a presentation of the Highland Park [Illinois] Public Library.