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Leo Manso, “The Etruscan Cup,” circa 1975, mixed media collage, 45 by 35 inches.

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FOR 5/16

ACME FINE ART, BOSTON ‘LEO MANSO: COLLAGES’ w/1 cut

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BOSTON, MASS. — ACME Fine Art presents an exhibition of Leo Manso’s collages on view through June 21.

Manso (1914–1993) was a well-regarded artist and teacher. His work was widely exhibited and collected throughout his distinguished career.

Today, his work is in the permanent collections of numerous public and private institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Hirshhorn Museum, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the National Academy of Design.

Manso served on the faculty of The Cooper Union and the Art Students League, and was co-founder of the Provincetown Workshop School of Art.

During the later half of his artistic career, Manso principally focused his energies on collage and sculptural assemblages, many of which were based on Italian Renaissance or Eastern themes. His work from this period — especially the mixed media collages — won him considerable recognition.

Regarding Manso’s collages, Robert Motherwell said it best: “One of collage’s masters during the past decade is Leon Manso, whose impeccable sense of placement and musical silence amidst a noisy world calls up the Quattrocento of Manso’s beloved Italy, if not its grandeur. Manos’s work is small in scale, secular and intimate in its subjects, but no less implacable in its ethical integrity…”

ACME Fine Art is at 38 Newbury Street. For information, www.acmefineart.com or 617-585-9551.