Background
Coletti, Joseph Arthur was born on November 5, 1898 in San Donato, Italy. Son of Dominick and Donata (Cardarelli) Coletti.
Coletti, Joseph Arthur was born on November 5, 1898 in San Donato, Italy. Son of Dominick and Donata (Cardarelli) Coletti.
Came to the United States, 1900. Student Massachusetts Artist School, 1915-1917, Northeastern Preparatory School, 1917-1919.
Associate of Arts, Harvard, 1923.
; children—Donata (Mistress Kirke L. Mechem), Miriam Whitney (Mistress Peter B. Dow). Pupil, became assistant John Singer Sargent. Numerous works including: baptismal font Saint John's Episcopal Church, Westwood, Massachusetts, Henry B. Washburn Memorial, Episcopal Seminary, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Lieutenant William F. Callahan, Junior Callahan Tunnel Entrance, Boston, Albert Schweizer medal.
Ferdinand Gagnon Memorial Seminaire Saint Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada.
Gagnon statue, LaFayette Park, Manchester, New Hampshire (U.S.) “Mourning Victory,” Lafayette Park, Salem, Massachusetts.
Harvard Glee Club medal in collection Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France. Senator David I. Walsh Statue, Esplanade, Boston. Orpheus, Nonquitt, Massachusetts.
General Edward L. Logan statue Logan International Airport, Boston: Father Michael Joseph McGivney statue, Waterbury, Connecticut.
Boston Arts Festival medal. Facade and 11 heroic sized panels for Cathedral of Mary Our Queen, Baltimore.
Saint George statue National Gallery Modern Art, Florence, Italy.
Paderewski Centennial medal Museum Treasures Cathedral Wavel Castle, Cracow, Poland.
Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison medallion Vatican Collection. Doctor George P. Berry Memorial, Countway Medical Library, Boston, Orphens Fountain, Lowell (Massachusetts) State College, Dante Society American 7th Centennial medal, Dow Memorial, Buffalo, Boston Tea Party coin-medal, George Peabody Gardner Memorial, Science Building Children’s Hospital Boston.
Member National Humanities Faculty. Member Boston History Conservation Committee. Member camouflage committee Massachusetts Committee Public Safety, 1939-1942.
Fellow National Sculpture Society.
Member Medieval Academy American, American Federation Arts, Dante Society American, Italian History Society, Phi Beta Kappa (honorary). Clubs: Saint Botolph, Harvard.
Married Miriam Kerruish Whitney, September 28, 1929 (divorced 1943). Children: Donata (Mistress Kirke L. Mechem), Miriam Whitney (Mistress Peter B. Dow).