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William Pesce May 14, 1935 February 18, 2019 William Bill Pesce, 1935-2019 from Windsor (and Long Island) passed into peace surrounded by his family on Febr...uary 18th. Born in New York City, he grew up in Astoria/Long Island City. Always the avid artist, he graduated from Farmingdale University with an Advertising Degree. He then served our country in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War. Bill started his first advertising business in 1965, one month before marrying Johanne DeLuca. Bill pursued his passion for over 40 years, becoming President and CEO of several award-winning advertising firms in Manhattan and Long Island, handling national and international accounts and retiring in 2007 from Austin Williams, a firm he co-founded. Bill was active in community affairs no matter where he lived. He was a 25-year-long member of the Board of the Cinema Art Centre in Huntington, Long Island as well as the Long Island Association. In 1970, because they loved the area, Bill and Johanne became part-time residents of Windsor, purchasing land that they would tent-camp on, and eventually installing a small Gambrell roofed cottage. Over the years they expanded the house and in 2007 decided to make it their permanent home. Their combined love for the arts inspired them to renovate and refurbish the historic Windsor Whip Worksone of the country’s leading buggy-whip manufacturing facilitiesinto the Windsor Whip Works Art Center and Gallery, which became a world-class art gallery and non-profit community arts center showing local, regional, national and international artists; holding workshops, classes and gallery talks, hosting art excursions and promoting the arts in Broome County. Bill and Johanne championed the arts throughout Broome County; Bill became a Broome County Arts Council Board Member and served on many other community-oriented boards. He also developed plans for improving the region with the Windsor Partnership. In 2009, Bill and Johanne were honored with Broome County’s Heart of the Arts Award. Bill was beloved and will be remembered for his artistic vision, his infectious laugh, robust sense of humor and the gracious way he welcomed others into his gallery, his home and his life. Bill was predeceased by his father, Onofrio Pesce, mother Marge Toscano and his sister Roseann Calvello. Carrying on his zest for life are his wife Johanne, daughter Theresa Happe and husband Steve; son Frederic Pesce and wife Nicole Pesce and Anthony Pesce; daughter Elizabeth Pesce and fiancé Scott Hunt; and eleven grandchildren, a niece and two nephews. Service and viewing Saturday, February 23rd at McCormack Sons Funeral Home, 141 Main St., Binghamton. Please note the service will start promptly at 1pm with visitation immediately following until 4pm. Interment will be private. In lieu of flowers please consider a donation in memory of Bill to Mercy House, 212 N McKinley Ave, Endicott, NY 13760 Fred Pesce Elizabeth Pesce Here are just some of his paintings that hang in my home:

Rest In Peace Bill Pesce

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Roy DeCarava b. December 9, 1919 Roy DeCarava was an American photographer who created some of the most iconic images we have of the Civil Rights Movement and... jazz musicians in motion. DeCarava produced five major books, including The Sound I Saw and The Sweet Flypaper of Life as well as landmark museum catalogs and retrospective surveys from the Friends of Photography and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The subject of at least 15 single artist exhibitions, DeCarava was the first African American photographer to win a Guggenheim Fellowship and in 2006, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts from the National Endowment for the Arts, the highest award given to artists by the United States Government. He began as a a painter but traded in his brushes for a camera. His images of African-American lifescenes in Harlem, the civil rights movement and jazz musiciansare now iconic. He died in New York City on October 27, 2009. Either you believe that life in all its manifold horrors is basically and essentially good, or you don't ... what I try to say in my work is that 'I believe in life.' Roy DeCarava

Tullio Crali b.December 6, 1910 Crali was an Italian artist associated with Futurism. A self-taught painter, he was a late adherent to the movement, not joining until 1929. He is noted for realistic paintings that combine "speed, aerial mechanisation and the mechanics of aerial warfare. In 1928 Crali flew for the first time. His enthusiasm for flying and his experience as a pilot influenced his art. In 1929, through Sofronio Pocarini, he made contact with Marinetti, the foun...der of Futurism, and joined the movement. In the same year aeropittura was launched in the manifesto, Perspectives of Flight, signed by Benedetta, Depero, Dottori, Fillia, Marinetti, Prampolini, Somenzi and Tato. The manifesto stated that "The changing perspectives of flight constitute an absolutely new reality that has nothing in common with the reality traditionally constituted by a terrestrial perspective" and that "Painting from this new reality requires a profound contempt for detail and a need to synthesise and transfigure everything. Despite his relative youth, Crali played a significant part in aeropittura. His earliest aeropitture represent military planes, Aerial Squadron and Aerial Duel (both 1929). In the 1930s, his paintings became realistic, intending to communicate the experience of flight to the viewer. His best-known work, Nose Dive on the City (1939), shows an aerial dive from the pilot's point of view, the buildings below drawn in dizzying perspective. li was buried at Macerata, which remains the home of his family.

Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky b. December 4, 1866 Russian-born painter Wassily Kandinsky is credited as a leader in avant-garde art as one of the founders of pure abstraction in painting in the early 20th century.... He is credited with painting the first purely abstract works. Born in Moscow, Kandinsky spent his childhood in Odessa. In 1896, at the age of 30, Kandinsky gave up a promising career teaching law and economics to enroll in art school in Munich. He was not immediately granted admission, and began learning art on his own. That same year, before leaving Moscow, he saw an exhibit of paintings by Monet. He was particularly taken with the impressionistic style of Haystacks; this, to him, had a powerful sense of colour almost independent of the objects themselves. Kandinsky's creation of abstract work followed a long period of development and maturation of intense thought based on his artistic experiences. He called this devotion to inner beauty, fervor of spirit, and spiritual desire inner necessity; it was a central aspect of his art. In 1896 Kandinsky settled in Munich, studying first at Anton Ažbe's private school and then at the Academy of Fine Arts. He returned to Moscow in 1914, after the outbreak of World War I. Kandinsky was unsympathetic to the official theories on art in Communist Moscow, and returned to Germany in 1921. There, he taught at the Bauhaus school of art and architecture from 1922 until the Nazis closed it in 1933. He then moved to France, where he lived for the rest of his life, becoming a French citizen in 1939 and producing some of his most prominent art. He died at Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1944. Further Reading Kandinsky's views are in his Concerning the Spiritual in Art, and Painting in Particular (1912; trans. 1947). The most comprehensive study of Kandinsky is Will Grohmann, Wassily Kandinsky: Life and Work (trans. 1958). Max Bill, Wassily Kandinsky (1951), with articles by various contributors, contains important biographical and art-historical data. Paul Overy, Kandinsky: The Language of the Eye (1969), applies Gestalt psychological and philosophical viewpoints to the assessment of Kandinsky's art.