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 WaterhouseGallery Tony Pro

 

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Tony Pro

Tony Pro was born in Northridge, California in 1973. He grew up in Southern California around artists such as his father, Julio (1929- ), who was an up and coming artist in the southwest art business.

Pro received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Graphic Design from California State University, Northridge and at the same time attended classes at California Art Institute where he studied with famed illustrator, Glenn Orbik. There he learned the value of academic figure and head drawing and how to apply strict study principles to his lifestyle. While attending classes at the institute he was side by side with many of the greats that stemmed from the school, like Ryan Wurmser and Jeremy Lipking. Pro, also, has painted in the tutelage of legends like that of Richard Schmid and Morgan Weistling.

Pro's influences are the likes of John Singer Sargent, Anders Zorn, Joaquin Sorolla and Philip Alexius de Laszlo. Other influences stem from the California Impressionist painters such as Edgar Payne, Granville Redmond, Armin Hansen, and William Wendt. The great French representational artists like Emille Friant and Jules-Bastien Lepage also play a large role in Pro's style of painting.

Pro looks forward to a life-long journey in painting for painting's sake and to follow in the footsteps of his painting heroes.

His work is in the permanent collection of the San Antonio Mission Historical Park Museum.

Please call 805-962-8885 or email us (art@waterhousegallery.com) For more details.

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