Beatrice with African Sculpture Still Life,
Emanuel Romano,
oil on canvas, 1944 34 x 44

Emanuel Romano was born Emanuel Glicenstein in Rome in 1897. He arrived in the United States in 1927 and became a citizen in 1932. He lived in New York City and died there in 1984.
He studied in Switzerland and with his father, well-known sculptor Enrico Glicenstein.

He exhibited at the Whitney Museum, at the Society of Independent Artists, at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, at the Art Institute of Chicago, in museums in Israel, and in numerous Art Galleries in Munich, Rome, Boston, New York , Paris and Tel Aviv.

His work is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Musees Nationaux de France, the Boston Fine Arts Museum, the Detroit Museum, the Fogg Museum of Art, the New London Museum.

While living in New York, he befriended many performing artists. He did portraits of Andre Gide, Andres Segovia and the poet William Carlos Williams among many others. His work was in the private collections of George Gershwin, Arturo Toscanini, Mauze Rockefeller, etc & He is listed in Who was Who in American Art, vol. III. A pamphlet written for the exhibition of Williams, portrait lists the numerous exhibits Romano had and the collections his work is in.

After Romano's death, the family kept his work in one of his two studios in New York City.

His very early pieces were signed Glicenstein, then Glicen, Glicen Romano and Romano.

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