Background
Corbino, Jon was born on April 3, 1905 in Vittoria, Italy. Son of Gaetano and Salvatrice (Collura) Corbino.
Corbino, Jon was born on April 3, 1905 in Vittoria, Italy. Son of Gaetano and Salvatrice (Collura) Corbino.
Brought to the United States, 1913. Educated Stuyvesant High school and Ethical Culture School, New York City. Art education Art Students League.
New York City, and Pennsylvania Academy Fine Arts.
Guggenheim fellowships, 1936 and 1937.
First oneman exhibition Oberlin Art Museum, O., 1925. Represented in forty museums and galleries, including Metropolitan Museum of Art, Chicago The Art Institute of Chicago, Whitney Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Carnegie Institute, Brooks Memorial Art Museum (Memphis), North. Anno Domini, International Business Machines Corporation, Encyclopedia British collections, Centurion collection Herron Museum Art, Indianapolis, 1962. Instructor Art Students League, New York City Illustrator limited edits, Gulliver’s Travels and Marco Polo.
Awards: M. V. Kohnstam prize, The Art Institute of Chicago of Chicago, 1936, 1st prize in the Drawing Show, summer, 1944.
International Water Color Exhibit, 1944. Lippincott prize and museum purchase, Pennsylvania Academy Fine Arts, 1938.
Obrig prize, National Academy, 1938. New Rochelle silver medal, 1940.
Award for painting, National Institute Arts and Letters, 1941.
DeVinci silver medal, 1942. Saltus gold medal, North.A. Doctorate., 1944. Salmagundi $1000 purchase prize Metropolitan Museum Art, 1944.
Audubon gold medal of honor, 1946.
Tousca Pearl competition, 1946. Pepsi-Cola contest, 1946.
National Arts Club gold medal, 1950. Hazard Niedinghous Memorial prize, 1950, Ranger Fund purchase, National Academy, 1960.
Ellin P. Speyer Memorial Prize, National Academy of Design, 1961.
National Academician. Home: 2515 Sunnyside Saint, Sarasota 33579. Studio: 3225 Mayflower Saint, Sarasota, Florida
Married Marcia Norcross, February 15, 1951. Children: Lee, Christopher Jon, Peter, Jon, Junior.