I AM THE DAUGHTER OF DOMINGO SAGLIMBENE, WHO PASSED AWAY ON JANUARY 9, 2016. Regarding Domingo Saglimbene Born Catania, Sicily February 9, 1920 Attained United States of America citizenship July 25, 1932 Served in the Army of the United States (Private, Medical Corp) 1941-1943 Married Lieutenant Kathryn Graef (Nurse, Army of the United States Medical Corp) March 8, 1944 Became a father of an only child (Diana Saglimbene Tice, Elkhart, Indiana) February 11, 1945 Died Elkhart, Indiana, January 9, 2016 A self-taught artist, he began his journey with art at the age of six, and when he died one month to the day of his ninety-sixth birthday, there was a painting still wet in his studio. A resident of the Detroit area until he relocated to Elkhart, Indiana, in June 2011, his work appeared on exhibit in the following venues: • Wayne County Artists Show (Wayne County, Michigan) 1950, 1951 • Detroit Institute of Arts 1952, 1953, 1954, 1956, 1957 • Province Town Arts Festival (American Art of Our Time), Province Town, Massachusetts 1958 • University of Michigan (Once during the 1960’s) • Detroit Artist Market 1950’s - 1960’s • Grinnell Gallery, Detroit, Michigan 1960’s • J.L. Hudson Co. Spring Art Show (in collaboration with Detroit Artist Market) 1959 Patrons of Domingo Saglimbene’s art during his time in the Detroit area included the following individuals: • Edgar P. Richardson, Director of the Detroit Institute of Art (1945-1962) • Morley Driver, an art critic at the Detroit Free Press (1950’s - 1960’s) • Norman Strauss, CEO of the J. Walter Thompson Company, New York, New York • Mr. and Mrs. Cliford Levin of the Beck Shoe Mfg. Company • Father Kenneth Near, Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan • Dr. Karen Near, Brookeville, Maryland • Cheryl Kennedy, San Marco Island, Florida One man exhibitions of Saglimbene’s work were as follows: • One Man Exhibition at the J. Walter Thompson Company, New York, New York 1960 • One Man Exhibition at the J.L. Hudson Company, Detroit, Michigan 1962 • One Man Exhibition at Les Galleries de Renée Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan 1962 Saglimbene was a featured artist at the Ron Thompson Gallery on the occasion of the first Elkhart, Indiana, Art Walk June 2011 Three of Saglimbene’s paintings appeared in an exhibit at the Midwest Museum of American Art, Elkhart, Indiana, in 2017. The exhibit was titled “No Boundaries: Outsider, Folk, and Art of the Self Taught.” One of Saglimbene’s paintings, Feasting at a White Table is now part of the museum’s permanent collection. In July 2019 a selection of Saglimbene’s paintings was transferred from the possession of his daughter, Diana Saglimbene Tice, to Same Kind of Different As Me Foundation (SKODAM) which is under the auspices of Ron Hall, an art dealer by profession and impassioned supporter of work ameliorating the plight of impoverished people. The transfer provided SKODAM with a donation of art that would provide a means to aid homeless people and poor people in need of aid and a new beginning. In October of 2021 a selection of Saglimbene’s paintings was auctioned to benefit the work of Operation Care International, an organization focused upon ameliorating the plight of the homeless. The fundraiser was held at the Dallas Museum of Biblical Art, and raised $39,400 to support the work of of Operations Care International. In April of 2022 three of Saglimbene’s paintings were sold at the annual fundraiser for the Oliver Mission in Columbia, South Carolina, the largest and oldest mission in Columbia. Also in 2022, Andrew Welker, Director of the Amon Carter Museum in Forth Worth, Texas, donated $3,500 to the Tarrant County Food Bank through his personal acquisition of Boy With An Owl. In April of 2023 three of Saglimbene’s paintings were sold to benefit charitable causes, two at a fundraiser to aid cancer patients, and one at the Yellow Rose Gala to benefit the efforts of the Yellow Rose Foundation, Dallas, Texas. On June 13, 2024, the Municipality of Catania, Sicily published the following in a press release: Quotes from the Municipality of Catania Press Release (6/13/24) [English Translation AI Generated] Palazzo degli Elefanti: Four Works by Domingo Saglimbene Donated to the City “Four extraordinary paintings by Domingo Saglimbene have become the city’s heritage, thanks to a donation that responds to the spiritual testament donation of a great artist towards his land of origin. Thus, the mayor, Enrico Tratino, welcomed in the council room of Palazzo degli Elefanti, the arrival in Catania from the United States – the valuable paintings of the established Italian-American painter…..The four pictorial works, created in oil on Masonite in 1980 are In the Company of Sunflowers, Great Expectations, Out with Cicero, the Dane, and Hot Summer.” “They were delivered to the mayor and to the Catania community by Diana Saglimbene Tice, daughter of the artist and by the patron and art dealer, Ron Hall, accompanied by the gallery owner Massimo Ligreggi, also present – the Director of Culture, Paolo Di Caro and the manager of the municipality’s museum system, Valentina Noto. Saglimbene born in 1920 in Catania emigrated in the 1930’s to Detroit, and in the United States, he developed and affirmed his talent, taking inspiration from masters such as Picasso, Modigliani, Dali, and Van Gogh. The influence of these master artists is present in the brush strokes of the paintings that will be exhibited in the Palazzo Della Cultura where they can be admired by the many visitors and tourists….. Also, not mentioned in the press release, there are this summer of 2024 – three paintings rendered by Domingo Saglimbene in the Galleria Massimo Ligreggi, which are slated to be sold to benefitcharitable causes within the municipality of Catania. They are Rich Harvest, She Had Eyes the Color of Rain, and Fisher Woman. At the Mission of Hope Fundraiser in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, in September 2024, Saglimbene’s Woman in Prayer was auctioned to benefit the work of the mission bringing $3,000 to “help people” as Saglimbene would have expressed it. From April 11, 2025 - June 8, 2025 - three of Saglimbene’s paintings were part of an exhibit at the Midwest Museum of American Art in Elkhart, Indiana. The title of the exhibit was “Politics and Religion: Artists Speak Out” and the three Saglimbene paintings in that exhibit were Behold the Lamb of God, The Boy Jesus on a Donkey, and Preacher Man. Also, in the spring of 2025, Saglimbene’s daughter sent a painting entitled Madonna of the People to Pope Francis during his final illness. It was delivered to the papal secretary. One of Saglimbene’s paintings – Portrait of Jesus – is now part of the Dallas Museum of Biblical Art’s permanent collection. Domingo Saglimbene is listed in the Smithsonian Archives of American Art. At some point during the sixty’s, Saglimbene chose to withdraw from “the art world” and focus totally upon creating his art; and he sold his paintings - by word of mouth - from his home. Several of the patrons listed in this biographical abstract were among those who came to his home. Prolific as he was, there are still remaining, several hundred paintings to find their place in the world, a task he entrusted to his daughter before his death. Domingo Saglimbene was my father. What of substance can I say in a brief abstract regarding the man or his life’s work - his art? Critics stated that his work reveals an intellectual inclination, a level of creativity that made it possible for him to create his own distinctive style. In Art and Artists, June-July 1962, a Michigan art publication, Kelly Williams wrote: The one man exhibition of Saglimbene’s paintings portraying humble folk and children was good. He seemed to impart a feeling for his fellow man. His canvasses were peopled with big saddened eyed single subjects projecting a sculptural feeling. An old world quality permeates Saglimbene’s paintings, created by his use of earth colors. His figures stand out boldly from the background. Here is evidence of an artist with strong convictions about humanity. He needs no bridge to communicate. My father would go on to do far more than what Mr. Williams saw in the one man show at the J. L. Hudson Company in 1962, but the essence of the quote holds true for his work. My father needed no words. His art did and does speak for him and itself. In conclusion: a memory of a conversation I had with my father when I was very young..... I had beenenthusiastically telling him about seeing Albrecht Dürer’s The Hare, and Dad said, “The rabbit in the drawing can never hop.” Here was an artist (who had told me on another occasion that he painted “for the love of art”) saying in essence that no matter how beautiful or wonderful an artist’s creation is, it can never equal the creation of God. That statement says much about my father as an artist and as a man. I am grateful he was my father. His presence in my life was a gift, and he lives on, not only in his art, but in my heart forever. Diana Saglimbene Tice Elkhart, Indiana, USA