LEE CORBINO GALLERIES

“Great Religious Holidays,” Redbook Magazine Dec 1950, vol. 96, No. 2, pg. 58-59 (double page spread). [ill. Advent] The essence of Christmas is life, hope and peace. On the following two pages, famous American painter Jon Corbino has captured this concept for Redbook in his picture of Mary holding the infant Jesus before the world. The artist’s theme is Zacharias’ prophecy from St. Luke, I, 79: “To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.”

Reproduced as Redbook Magazine’s Christmas card, December 1950

Falconer by Jon Corbino © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

FALCONER

Date: circa 1950s

Black ink on paper: sight size 7 7/8 x 9 7/8 inches

Signed: Corbino (lower right)

Gold leaf frame, linen mat, black liner under glass: 18 ½ x 16 ½ inches

Condition: paper creased, stained, crinkled and 2 tears but have been stabilized by the matting. White marks are glass reflections

Acrobats by Jon Corbino © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

ACROBATS

1950s

Sepia ink on gray/green paper

Sight size: 9 ½ x 6 3/8 inches

Signed: Corbino (lower right center)

Silver leaf on wood House of Heydenryk frame under glass with a new beveled silver/gray museum quality mat and back board: 17 ½ x 14 ½ inches (overall size). Glass reflections are seen in the photograph.

Note: During the 1940s and 1950s Corbino attended Ringling Brother’s Barnum & Bailey circus rehearsals in New York and at their winter headquarters’ in Sarasota, Florida and drew the circus performers.

CRUCIFIXION

1953

Oil and Silver leaf on canvas 12 x 16 inches

Ben Badura silver leaf wood frame and white liner- 18 x 22 inches

Signed: Corbino in white lower right

Verso: on stretcher Jon Corbino, 5 Marmion Way, Rockport, Mass in Corbino’s hand. STAMP: The estate of Jon Corbino Picture #12. Reproduction rights reserved by the Artist.

This Painting is from the Crucifixion Series. Public collections and Museums that represent this series are the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN, The Art Students League, New York, NY, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL , Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL, and St Boniface Church, Sarasota, FL.

EXHIBITIONS

Pioneer Museum & Haggin Galleries, Stockton, CA. One Man Show “Corbino”. October 1959.

Cowie Gallery, Los Angles, CA .One Man Show “Corbino, N.A.,” December 1-31, 1959.

O’Brien Art Emporium, Scottsdale, AZ. One Man Show. “Corbino”. March 7-19, 1960.

Hilton Leech Gallery, Sarasota, FL. “Religious Show,” March 15 - April 3, 1964

Frank J. Oehlschlaeger Galleries, Chicago, IL. “Paintings by Jon Corbino”. September 16-October 14, 1966

Hibel Gallery, Palm Beach, FL. “Jon Corbino” February 22- March 7, 1970.

Corbino Galleries, Sarasota, FL. “Exhibition of Paintings by Jon Corbino” Jan-Feb 1985.

Naples International Pavilion, Naples, FL. “Jon Corbino: Artnaples: Art + Photography + Design,” March 18-21, 2011.

CRUCIFIXION

Casein on Canvas: 30 x 40 inches

Date: 1950

Signed: Corbino (lower right)

Frame: Wormy Chestnut: 36 x 46 inches

Verso: Stretcher upper left: Jon Corbino, Marmion Way, Rockport and estate stamp. Stretcher upper right: Crucifixion: Drawing in Casein, preliminary design for painting in oil ’50.

Note: This Painting is from the Crucifixion Series. Public collections and Museums that represent this series are the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN, The Art Students League, New York, NY, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL, Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL, and St Boniface Church, Sarasota, FL.

EXHIBITIONS

University of South Florida, Tampa, FL. “Exhibition Sarasota Group,” July 1962

O’Brien’s Art Emporium, Scottsdale, AZ. “Corbino,” November 18 – December 1, 1962