Silvana Cenci   Born Died   August 4, 1926 in Florence, Italy October 2000 Profession   Sculptor   Preferred Media   Metal (exploded)   Related Professions   Artist in Residence and Lecturer   Education and Training   1946   1949 1951 Accademia di Belle Arti, Florence, Italy Academie de la Grande Chaumiere, Paris Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Oregon   Selected Individual Exhibitions   1957 1957 1958 1958 1960 1964 1966 1974 1976 1978 1978 1978 1979 1985 Galleria Numero, Florence, Italy Galleria San Carlo, Naples, Italy Galleria d'Arte Totti, Milan, Italy Galeria Beno, Zurich, Switzerland Nova Gallery, Boston Weeden Gallery, Boston Capricorn Gallery, New York City Roach-Hoffman Gallery, Naples, Florida Bristol Art Museum, Bristol, Rhode Island, retrospective Frank Tanzer Gallery, Boston Symphony Hall, Boston Musica Viva, Cambridge, Massachusetts Los Llanos Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff   Selected Group Exhibitions   1952 1955   1956 1957 1962 1964   1965 1971 1975 1985    "Oregon Artists," Lincoln County Art Center, Lincoln, Oregon "Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture," Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, Washington  "West Coast Sculptors," Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon "Mostra Nazionale del Bianco e Nero," Museo Civico Castello Urasino, Catania, Italy  "New England Art Today," Northwestern University, Boston  "New England Sculptors Association," Boston City Hall, Boston  "Silvana Cenci and Calvin Libby," Bristol Art Museum, Bristol, Rhode Island    "Adele Seronde and Silvana Cenci," Weeden Gallery, Boston "Contemporary Italian Art-Italian Heritage," Boston City Hall, Boston, catalog "Explosion of Form, Color, Imagination: Works by Silvana Cenci, Adele Seronde, Theodosia Anderson," Art Gallery, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff     Selected Public Collections   Collezione Fiamma Vigo, Rome, Italy Colonnade Hotel, Boston Community School, Dorchester, Massachusetts First Baptist Church, Keene, New Hampshire Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Florence, Italy Graham Junior College, Boston Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, South Station, Boston Merchants Bank, Manchester, Massachusetts Millhouse-Bundy Performing and Fine Arts Center, Waitsfield, Vermont Western Front Restaurant, Cambridge, Massachusetts   Selected Private Collections   Mr. and Mrs. Joshua Levy, Boston Mr. and Mrs. Jean Montagu, Brookline, Massachusetts Mr. and Mrs. Edward Shapiro, Brookline, Massachusetts Dr. and Mrs. James Skinner, Bow, Massachusetts Frederic Rothchild, Portland, Oregon Selected Awards   1971 1974 1983 First Honorable Mention, "Design in Transit," Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Competition, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts Research in Creative Art Grant, Blanche E. Colman Foundation, Boston, Massachusetts Statue of Victory, World Culture Prize for Letters, Arts and Sciences, Centro Studi e Ricerche delle Nazioni, Salsomaggiore Terme, Italy   Selected Bibliography   Brolin, Brent C. and Jean Richards. Sourcebook of Architectural Ornament: Designers, Craftsmen, Manufacturers and Distributors of Custom and Ready-Made Exterior Ornament. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1982. Cooper, Ed. "Cenci Sculptures at Nova." The Christian Science Monitor (Tuesday, November 21, 1961) p. 7, illus. Hughes, John A. "Explosion in Northwood." New Hampshire Profiles vol. 13 no. 6 (June 1964) pp. 38-39, 56, illus.   Gallery Affiliation   Southwest Symphony Gallery, Sedona, Arizona “Madeline, la danseuse du cancan,” 1953. Bronze, 5’9” This is one of only four cast in a seven-cast limited edition. Madeline actually posed for this piece.