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The Artists' Signatures Discovery Engine^SM was designed from the ground up to help searchers easily determine the identity of artists with illegible or difficult to read signatures by enabling you to search based on the way the signature appears on a work of art.  Every illegible signature, monogram, and symbol in our comprehensive database of over 100,000 examples was manually reviewed by our team to ensure that each signature can be identified by our users based on the mark's appearance alone.

Every artist profile contains biographical reference information including, birth and death dates (if available) from hundreds of reputable sources.

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What is Artists' Signatures?

Artists' Signatures is an online service providing fast and easy access to a comprehensive database of fine art research information and hand-copied signature examples. Artists' Signatures incorporates the contents of all 17 of John Castagno's books as well as additional corrections and unprinted research. Most importantly, Artists' Signatures makes it possible to discover an artist's identity when the only information available is an indiscernible or monogrammed signature.

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John Castagno's Biography

JOHN CASTAGNO, born in Philadelphia, PA, 1930.

John Castagno has been an art researcher for the past twenty eight years and is also a multimedia artist and sculptor. He received his art education at the Fleisher Memorial, the Philadelphia College of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and the Barnes Foundation in Merion, PA.

John Castagno's art is in more than forty museum and public collections in the United States, Israel, and Ireland, as well as in the private collections of Presidents Barack Obama, Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford. John Castagno also lectures on art and art as an investment. He is the author of over 17 art reference books published by Scarecrow Press, including the following (as well as his forthcoming books.)

ART BOOK PUBLICATIONS / PUBLISHER: SCARECROW PRESS of ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD

1. Artists As Illustrators: An International Directory with Signatures and Monograms, 1800-Present; Published 1989.
2. American Artists: Signatures and Monograms, 1800-1989; published 1990.
3. European Artists: Signatures and Monograms, 1800-1990; published, 1990.
4. Artists' Monograms & Indiscernable Signatures: An International Directory: 1800-1991, published, 1991.
5. Old Masters: Signatures and Monograms, 1400-mid 19th Century, published 1995.
6. Latin American Artists: Colonial Era to 1996, Signatures and Monograms, Biographical/Bibliographical and exhibition information, etc. Published 1996.
7. American Artists: Signatures and Monograms, Vol. II 1800-2005 published, 2005.
8. European Artists: Signatures and Monograms, Vol. II 1800-2005 published, 2005.
9. Artists' Monograms and Indiscernible Signatures: An International Directory, Vol. II, 1800-2005, Published 2005.
10. Abstract Artists: Signatures and Monograms, An International Directory, 20th Century-2005, Published 2005.
11. American Artists: Signatures and Monograms Vol. III, published 2009
12. European Artists: Signatures and Monograms Vol. III, published 2009
13. Artists' Monograms and Indiscernible Signatures, Vol. III, published 2009
14. Sian, African and Middle Eastern Artists, Signatures and Monograms, published 2009
15. Australian, British and Irish Artists, Signatures and Monograms, published 2009
16. Old Master Artists, Signatures and Monograms, Vol. II, published 2009
17. Jewish Artists, International, Signatures and Monograms, published 2010

ONE MAN EXHIBITIONS

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

EARLY COMPETITIVE JURIED EXHIBIT AWARDS

• First Sculpture Prize, Upper Merion Cultural Center, PA, 1972.
• Honorable Mention, Philadelphia Automobile Club, 1970.
• Honorable Mention, Delaware County Arts Festival, PA, 1970.
• First Prize, Delaware County Arts Festival, PA, 1969.

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

• Arkansas Art Center, Arkansas
• American Heritage Publishers, New York City
• Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama
• Butler Institute of American Art, Ohio
• Carnegie Museum of Art, Pennsylvania
• Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Iowa
• Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
• Delaware Art Museum, Delaware
• Hoyt Institute of Fine Arts, Pennsylvania
• Kent State University, Ohio
• Lakeview Museum of Arts & Sciences, Illonois
• La Salle College, Philadelphia
• Los Angeles County Museum, California
• Lowe Art Museum, Florida
• Madison Art Center, Wisconsin
• Museum of Art University of Oregon
• Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
• Museum of Modern Art, Haifa, Israel
• Museum of New Mexico
• Museum of the Philadelphia Civic Center
• Municipality of Dublin, Ireland
• Pennsylvania Historical Society, Philadelphia
• Free Library, Logan Square, Philadelphia
• Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona
• Portland Museum of Art, Maine
• Rutgers University, New Jersey
• Saint Lawrence University, New York
• Temple University, Philadelphia
• Tweed Museum, Minnesota
• University of North Dakota
• Upper Merion Cultural Center, Pennsylvania
• Wichita Art Museum, Kansas
• Widener Colleges, Pennsylvania
• William Penn Memorial Museum, Pennsylvania
• Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts
• Woodmere Art Museum, Pennsylvania
• Yellowstone County Museum, Montana
• Zanesvilla Art Institute, Ohio

PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

• President and Mrs. Jimmy Carter
• President and Mrs. Gerald Ford
• Edward Bernstein, Philadelphia
• President and Mrs. Barack Obama
• Etc.

REVIEWS, ANNOUNCEMENTS & REPRODUCTIONS

PHILANTHROPY

• Since 1972: Annual Donator of art works to museums and public institutions; also securing many other benefactors.
• 1980: Sending direct relief to earth quake victims in a southern Italian town.

WHO'S WHO IN AMERICAN ART

• Listed 1999-2000, 2001-2002, 2003-2004, 2005-2006, 2007-2008

CIVIC

• Since 1985: Several awards for city greening; still on-going.