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Like many other architects who came out of college during the Depression, Thomas Fransioli had to live more by chance than by design. Commissions were scarce, so he tried other ventures-farming, hog butchering and painting. By 1939 he was designing exhibition rooms for Washington's new National Gallery and painting miniature Goyas and Rembrandts for his small-scale models of the rooms. During World War II, the wreckage of cities and men's lives filled Fransioli with a desire to create a neat and orderly world in painting...
Last week visitors to the Farnsworth Art Museum at Rockland, Me. saw a sweeping vista of this tidy world. It had the pure newness of renderings on an architect's drawing board. Among the 53 Fransioli works were paintings of New England houses as scrupulous as portraiture. There were cityscapes of Boston and Cambridge in which the red bricks of Beacon Hill and Harvard glow with warmth, the Charles is mirrorlike and the winter sun, casting long shadows, is bright on the bare trees. His ruler-drawn interior, Vista from Within, suggests the antiseptic foyer of a brand...
...eight years as a painter, Fransioli has done 76 pictures, sold 64 (current prices: $400 to $1,200). At 49, he is still looking for change. His two latest canvases-a corner of his bedroom as he sees it when he wakes up in the morning, and a black cat vaguely reflected in a window-have moody overtones suggesting that Fransioli may be tending toward introspection. But while he experiments, he will still save his needle-sharp No. 1 brushes for sure-selling landscape commissions and the sunlight-and-shadow world he paints so precisely...
HARVARD--Pildnerg, g; Weies, rf; Toro, lf, Szaraz, rh; Haegler, ch; Amory, or Macgintosh, lh; Youmans, rw; Hok. tr; Cowperthwaite, c; Blumenfeld, il; Fransioli...
Harvard Pildner, g: Weiss, if: Toro, rf: Szaraz, rhb: Haegler, chb; Jobbins, jhb; Youmans or Cowperthwaite, fr: Wise, cf: Blumenfeld, il; Fransioli...