Conti (Gino E.) CollectionGino E. Conti Collection 2013-01-GEC

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Date range:	1928-1973, 1958-1973
Creator:	Gino Emilio Conti
Extent:	3.2 Linear Feet
Abstract:	The photographic collection encompasses the years of 1958 until 1973 and documents Rhode Island artist Gino Conti's travels in the American southwest and northern Mexico, primarily on American Indian reservations. It consists of over 3,700 photographic prints, negatives and slides, a disbound photo album and calendar pages used to record the locations of his travels. The collection also includes a box of postcards, a letter, newspaper clippings, art exhibition flyers, images of religious art and architecture, a reference book on the Tarahumana signed by Conti and a related ethnographic collection.
Physical location:	Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology Collections and Research Center 300 Tower Road Bristol, Rhode Island 02809 Phone: (401) 863-5700 Email: haffenreffermuseum@brown.edu
Repository:	Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology
Collection number:	2013-01-GEC

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Born in Barga, Italy in 1900, Conti emigrated with his parents to Providence, Rhode Island in 1903. Upon graduating from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1923, he was awarded two scholarships to study at the Ecole des Beaux Arts and Academie Julian, both in Paris, France. During his time in Europe he also resided at the Benedictine monastery of Santa Maria del Monte in Cesana, Italy. During the Great Depression in the late 1930s, he received contracts through the Works Progress Administration to paint two murals in Rhode Island; one at Samuel Slater Junior High School, Pawtucket and the second at Edwards Hall at the University of Rhode Island, Kingstown. During the late 1950s through the early 1970s, Conti began photographing people on the Hopi, Apache and Navaho (Dine) Reservations, and the Tarahumana people of Northern Mexico. He also taught Art at the Gordon School in Providence in the 1950s and 60s. After his death in 1983, over 3,700 photographs, a large Katsina doll collection and a number of objects from American Southwest, Northern Mexico and elsewhere were bequeathed to the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology in Bristol, Rhode Island.

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