Background
Maidoff grew up in the Bronx, New York where he attended New York High School of Industrial Art and Cooper Union.
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In 1955 he received his Bachelor from City College of New New York While completing his Master of Arts at City College of New York he was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to Italy, where he spent one year. After returning to New York, he spent the next decade exhibiting his paintings and working in graphic design.
Since 1973, he has lived and worked in Tuscany where, in 1975, he founded Studio Art Centers International.
His coming of age during World World War II also contributed greatly to his views on the artist"s social responsibility. After traveling to Florence in 1956 as part of the Fulbright Program, his interest in the art of the Renaissance as well as the history of Italy took root, and he frequently returned while supporting his family with work in graphic design and advertising.
In 1973, he decided to relocate and concentrate on painting full time. Originally settling in Pian di Scò (where he had purchased a farmhouse in 1970), he began giving art lessons in his studio.
Affiliations with study abroad programs led to the creation of an independently accredited nonprofit institution (SACI) which continues to this day as a degree-granting school at the graduate level
