Pastel Carl Valente print of an Amish home, barn and buggys.   Measures 16" x 20"

Carl Valente was born in Cleveland, Ohio in
1928. He revealed a natural artistic ability at an
early age. When he was seventeen, he won a
national art contest and received a scholarship
to the prestigious Cleveland Art Institute where
he continued to study for several years.

His artistic ability was of special interest to the Los
Angeles Herald Examiner where he was invited
to join the newspaper as a staff-artist, illustrator,
and designer of the Sunday color magazines. He
stayed with the Examiner for twenty-two years
and worked on a number of color inserts
including California Living and TV Weekly, where
his art was admired by millions from the
Southwest and the Pacific Coast. During this
period, Valente became intensely involved in
murals and painted commissioned murals for
private individuals and corporations, many of
which have been published in leading
magazines throughout the USA.

In the late eighties, using oil as an exclusive
medium, American impressionist Carl Valente
recreated in traditional form timeless scenes of
the peaceful American countryside along with
English cottages and villages of the British
countryside. Archways of climbing plants
entwine around brilliantly colored shrubs that
frame quaint thatched cottages. The artist's
landscapes are offerings from different seasons,
from a palette of varying colors.

By popular request, in the nineties, Carl began
his magnificent "Homes of the Americana" series.
This series includes Victorian farmhouses, manors
of New England, villages on the lakes of the
Midwest, log homes of the West, and colonials of
the South.

Carl Valente is published and licensed
exclusively by Bentley Publishing Group of
Walnut, California.