Background
Oronzo Vito Gasparo was born in Rutigliano, Bari, Italy in 1903, spent many active years in California, and died in New York in 1969.
Oronzo Vito Gasparo was born in Rutigliano, Bari, Italy in 1903, spent many active years in California, and died in New York in 1969.
Gasparo studied at the National Academy of Design in New New York He was mentored by Preston Dickinson and was Dickinson"s favorite pupil.
Oronzo Vito Gasparo worked under the s Progress Administration Easel Project during the Great Depression. Gasparo was an avid dancer and claimed to have brought the rumba to New New York