Peter Vieri Bianchi died at 80 on Wednesday, January 3, 2001 at Frederick Memorial Hospital. Born on October 18, 1920 in Kenosha, Wisconsin he studied at the Mizen - Academy of Art in Chicago after attending the Chicago Academy of Art and American Academy of Art in Chicago.
He married Elizabeth Ann Thomas, who survived him. As an apprentice artist, he worked for Haddon Sunblom-Johnson and White Art Studio from 1949 to 1951, then worked on commissions independently at his home studio in Kenosha unttil 1959.
He was one of two staff artists for the National Geographic Society's National Geographic Magazine in Washington from 1959 to 1973, and took independent commissions from 1974 throughout his life.
His religious paintings, many of them displayed in churches and monasteries, include "Archangel Raphael" and "The Dead Sea Scrolls". They range in size from huge murals in church basilicas to the small "The Madonna of the Airways" which hangs in the United States Air Force Academy chapel. His most recent work, known worldwide, was the drawing "Our Lady of Emmitsburg".
He served in the US Army during World War II and worked for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in North Africa, Corsica and Italy from 1941 to 1945.
The Skiles Funeral Home of Emmitsburg, MD was in charge of arrangements.
Contributor: Louis Rugani (39874824)
He married Elizabeth Ann Thomas, who survived him. As an apprentice artist, he worked for Haddon Sunblom-Johnson and White Art Studio from 1949 to 1951, then worked on commissions independently at his home studio in Kenosha unttil 1959.
He was one of two staff artists for the National Geographic Society's National Geographic Magazine in Washington from 1959 to 1973, and took independent commissions from 1974 throughout his life.
His religious paintings, many of them displayed in churches and monasteries, include "Archangel Raphael" and "The Dead Sea Scrolls". They range in size from huge murals in church basilicas to the small "The Madonna of the Airways" which hangs in the United States Air Force Academy chapel. His most recent work, known worldwide, was the drawing "Our Lady of Emmitsburg".
He served in the US Army during World War II and worked for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in North Africa, Corsica and Italy from 1941 to 1945.
The Skiles Funeral Home of Emmitsburg, MD was in charge of arrangements.
Contributor: Louis Rugani (39874824)
Peter Vieri Bianchi died at 80 on Wednesday, January 3, 2001 at Frederick Memorial Hospital. Born on October 18, 1920 in Kenosha, Wisconsin he studied at the Mizen - Academy of Art in Chicago after attending the Chicago Academy of Art and American Academy of Art in Chicago.
He married Elizabeth Ann Thomas, who survived him. As an apprentice artist, he worked for Haddon Sunblom-Johnson and White Art Studio from 1949 to 1951, then worked on commissions independently at his home studio in Kenosha unttil 1959.
He was one of two staff artists for the National Geographic Society's National Geographic Magazine in Washington from 1959 to 1973, and took independent commissions from 1974 throughout his life.
His religious paintings, many of them displayed in churches and monasteries, include "Archangel Raphael" and "The Dead Sea Scrolls". They range in size from huge murals in church basilicas to the small "The Madonna of the Airways" which hangs in the United States Air Force Academy chapel. His most recent work, known worldwide, was the drawing "Our Lady of Emmitsburg".
He served in the US Army during World War II and worked for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in North Africa, Corsica and Italy from 1941 to 1945.
The Skiles Funeral Home of Emmitsburg, MD was in charge of arrangements.
Contributor: Louis Rugani (39874824)
He married Elizabeth Ann Thomas, who survived him. As an apprentice artist, he worked for Haddon Sunblom-Johnson and White Art Studio from 1949 to 1951, then worked on commissions independently at his home studio in Kenosha unttil 1959.
He was one of two staff artists for the National Geographic Society's National Geographic Magazine in Washington from 1959 to 1973, and took independent commissions from 1974 throughout his life.
His religious paintings, many of them displayed in churches and monasteries, include "Archangel Raphael" and "The Dead Sea Scrolls". They range in size from huge murals in church basilicas to the small "The Madonna of the Airways" which hangs in the United States Air Force Academy chapel. His most recent work, known worldwide, was the drawing "Our Lady of Emmitsburg".
He served in the US Army during World War II and worked for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in North Africa, Corsica and Italy from 1941 to 1945.
The Skiles Funeral Home of Emmitsburg, MD was in charge of arrangements.
Contributor: Louis Rugani (39874824)
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