Artists

Joseph Charles Butera

Italian, 1905-1963

Studied: Child-Walker School of Fine Arts, Boston

• Member:
• Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
• Museum of Fine Arts Boston
• Director of the Northeastern Society of Independent Artists
• Copley Society (Treasurer 1956, Governor 1949-53)
• Boston Society of Independent Artists (Vice President 1955-56, Director 1947-53)
• Advertising Club
• Art Directors Club of Boston

• Awards:
• European Traveling Scholarship (1926-29)
• George Walter Vincent Smith Gallery of Art Prize (1941)

• Museums & Exhibitions:
• Museum of Fine Arts Boston
• White House, Washington DC
• Smith Museum of Art
• Springfield Public Library
• Northeastern University
• Institute of Modern Art
• Carnegie Institute

• Position:
• Butera School of Art (Founder & Director)
• Professor of Painting & Restoration, Avon University (1954-56)
• Assistant at the Department of Conservation & Restoration, FMA Cambridge