Discipline: Visual Art

Robert Borgatta

Discipline: Visual Art
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1973, 1974
More: www.robertoborgatta.org
Roberto Eduardo Biagio Borgatta y Ruiz (1921–2009), known professionally as Robert Edward Borgatta, was a Cuban-American artist. He was foremost a nature painter whose style evolved from abstractions and later became more representational. He was born in Havana, Cuba and immigrated to New York at a young age. Borgatta went to Leonardo da Vinci School from 1930 to 1938, where he was the youngest student at the school when he started at nine years old. He received his B.F.A. from New York University School of Architecture and Allied Arts in 1940 and got his M.F.A. at Yale University School of Art in 1942. Borgatta served in the United States Army Rangers during World War II as an intelligence officer.