Ralph Fasanella (1914–1997) was a self-taught painter who celebrated the common man and fought for the working class through artworks that tackled complex issues of postwar America. “Ralph Fasanella: ...

“I didn’t paint my paintings to hang in some rich guy’s living room,” Ralph Fasanella once said. There's an irony to that nose-thumbing dismissal, seeing as it targets the very people whose wealth and ...

A review in the Feb. 22 Weekend section incorrectly reported the address for the exhibition "The Art of Ralph Fasanella" at AFL-CIO headquarters. It is located at 815 16th St. NW. (Published 2/27/02) ...

Berkeley art historian Laura Ruberto's research on her latest academic project, a book on the Italian American immigrant experience in California, led her to the steps of the main branch of the ...

The appeal of a familiar outsider like Fasanella, the New York proletarian painter, who died in 1997, rises and falls like a barometer. When such art thrills—as it does now, with a show of Fasanella’s ...