Salvatore Del Deo studio. [2010, Dunlap]
Salvatore Del Deo studio. Sal Del Deo — the namesake of both Sal’s Place and Ciro & Sal’s — attended the Art Students League and the Vesper George School of Art in Boston before coming to town to study with Henry Hensche. His studio is a freestanding building well in the woods. To design it, Del Deo told me, he measured the dimensions of studios used by Moffett, Philip Malicoat, Pauline Palmer, Max Bohm, Frederick Waugh, and Charles Hawthorne.
In 2018, the Del Deo family was honored by an exhibition at the Pilgrim Monument and Provincetown Museum. It was titled, “Creating a Difference; The Del Deo Family of Provincetown: Art and Activism on the Outer Cape.” For that show, Melissa Renn, an art historian and curator at Harvard, wrote of Del Deo: “His paintings and drawings of dorymen, backshore cottages, dune shacks, and the shoreline in the seasons and at different times of day, not only demonstrate his intimate understanding of Provincetown’s unique community and ever-changing landscape, but also engage with debates surrounding figuration and abstraction in the American art world.”
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Henry Hensche drew and painted these portraits of Josephine and Sal Del Deo in the 1950s. [2010, Dunlap]
Homage to the Patricia Marie; The Shuckers, 1976-2001, by Salvatore Del Deo, oil on canvas (Berta Walker Gallery). As shown in the 2018 exhibition, “Creating a Difference,” at the Pilgrim Monument and Provincetown Museum.
Del Deo’s work is on exhibition at the Seamen’s Bank headquarters downtown.
Flyer’s Boatyard, 2006, by Salvatore Del Deo, oil on canvas (Berta Walker Gallery). As shown in the 2018 exhibition, “Creating a Difference,” at the Pilgrim Monument and Provincetown Museum.
Detail of Long Point Wine Sea, 1999, by Salvatore Del Deo, oil on canvas (Berta Walker Gallery). As shown in the 2018 exhibition, “Creating a Difference,” at the Pilgrim Monument and Provincetown Museum.
Big Blue Becalmed, 1990, by Salvatore Del Deo, oil on canvas (Collection of Kevin McLaughlin). As shown in the 2018 exhibition, “Creating a Difference,” at the Pilgrim Monument and Provincetown Museum.
Younger Sal and older Sal. [2010, Dunlap]
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31 Atkins Mayo Road on the Town Map, showing property lines.
Also at this address
• Main house.
¶ Last updated on 1 January 2022.