Monday, July 4, 2022 – HER POSTERS WERE ALL OVER THE CITY CELEBRATING OUR HARBOR
FROM THE ARCHIVES
MONDAY, JULY 4, 2022
THE 718th EDITION
THE WONDERFUL POSTERS
OF
LETIZIA PITIGLIANI
CELEBRATING
NEW YORK’S HARBOR FESTIVALS
IN SUMMERS PAST, WE WOULD LOOK FOR WONDERFUL POSTERS IN OUR SUBWAY STATIONS CELEBRATING OUR ANNUAL HARBOR FESTIVALS.THAT WAS BEFORE WE HAD THE FIREWORKS AT OUR DOORSTEPS AND LEARNED THE TRUTH ABOUT 10,000 GUESTS HERE EVERY JULY 4TH.
WHEN I MOVED INTO MY FIRST APARTMENT HERE IN AUGUST OF 1977. I BROUGHT WITH ME
THE ABOVE POSTER. I HAD IT FRAMED, ALL 38 x 52″ OF IT. I HAD TO FIND A CHECKER CAB TO LOAD IT INTO, TO TRAVEL TO THE ISLAND. IT HUNG ON MY WALL IN 580 FOR YEARS UNTIL I UPDATED THE DECOR AND GAVE AWAY THE ARTPIECE.
REGATTA ON THE EAST RIVER,1977
STATUE OF LIBERTY CENTENNIAL, 1986
| THE LINERS ARE COMING, 1977 |
 HARBOR FESTIVAL, 1983 |
 NEW YORK, NY 1980 |
 THE SHRINERS IN CENTRAL PARK, 1977 |
 REGATTA AROUND STATUE OF LIBERTY, 1977 |
 PAPER BOATS AND AIRPLANES, 1980 |
 HARBOR FESTIVAL, 1984 |
 EMPIRE STATE BUILDING, 1981 |
LETIZIA BENENSON OBITUARY
BENENSON–Letizia Pitigliani. Artist Letizia Pitigliani, born November 23, 1935, of New York City, Port Murray, New Jersey and Rome, Italy, died on January 24, 2012 in Cancun, Mexico. She is survived by her son Alexander, her daughter Daniela Fifi and her sister Anna Drago. Her husband Mark K. Benenson passed away on November 26 2013. Born in Rome, her family fled Italy at the beginning of WWII for New York City, to which she returned in marriage, to raise a family, and make her career as a painter. She is best known in New York City for her Harbor Festival posters from 1976-1986. Her work is found worldwide in private and public collections, and printed in hundreds of thousands of posters celebrating festivals and events big and small. Letizia Pitigliani’s works can be seen at www.pitigliani.com. A memorial will be held in the spring.
MONDAY PHOTO
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JOHN PHILIP SOUSA
COMPOSER OF PATRIOTIC MARCHES AND SONGS
HARA REISER, M. FRANK AND GLORIA HERMAN STRUCK UP THE BAND
Text by Judith Berdy
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Edited by Deborah Dorff
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Sources
NYC MUNICIPAL ARCHIVES
GRANTS CITY COUNCIL REPRESENTATIVE BEN KALLOS DISCRETIONARY FUNDING THRU DYCD
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