George Saladino had little art training but produced paintings that "were pure exuberance," said Denver artist Madeleine Dodge.
Saladino died Dec. 20 at age 81.
Dodge said she believed that Saladino's 15 years in Las Vegas and "its glitz and glamour" led him to paint with such bright colors.
"He had a tremendous palette, using colors all over the place," said Dodge, who arranged two shows for Saladino. "He painted on anything he could find, even did a painting of Lucille Ball on a TV tray."
"Looking at the paintings gives a woman enormous joy and exuberance in being a woman," she said.
Saladino started painting only 20 years ago, completely out of the blue. Friends think he took one art class.
"He was passionate and painted for the pure love of it," Dodge said.
His first painting was of a boat, and he did an occasional landscape, but mostly, it was women's faces.
He exhibited several years ago at the Catacombs Gallery in the basement of Holy Ghost Catholic Church, where he was an usher, and at a cooperative exhibit. He did more than 100 paintings, most of them 16 or 20 inches in size. He continued painting after moving to a Wheat Ridge care center.
George Saladino was born in Rock Springs, Wyo., on Feb. 27, 1928, and graduated from high school there. He often worked in his uncle's restaurant there, and when he moved to Denver, he worked at Gaetano's, a historic northwest Denver restaurant.
He married Claudette Kreiling on Feb. 28, 1980. She is his only immediate survivor.
Virginia Culver
Saladino died Dec. 20 at age 81.
Dodge said she believed that Saladino's 15 years in Las Vegas and "its glitz and glamour" led him to paint with such bright colors.
"He had a tremendous palette, using colors all over the place," said Dodge, who arranged two shows for Saladino. "He painted on anything he could find, even did a painting of Lucille Ball on a TV tray."
"Looking at the paintings gives a woman enormous joy and exuberance in being a woman," she said.
Saladino started painting only 20 years ago, completely out of the blue. Friends think he took one art class.
"He was passionate and painted for the pure love of it," Dodge said.
His first painting was of a boat, and he did an occasional landscape, but mostly, it was women's faces.
He exhibited several years ago at the Catacombs Gallery in the basement of Holy Ghost Catholic Church, where he was an usher, and at a cooperative exhibit. He did more than 100 paintings, most of them 16 or 20 inches in size. He continued painting after moving to a Wheat Ridge care center.
George Saladino was born in Rock Springs, Wyo., on Feb. 27, 1928, and graduated from high school there. He often worked in his uncle's restaurant there, and when he moved to Denver, he worked at Gaetano's, a historic northwest Denver restaurant.
He married Claudette Kreiling on Feb. 28, 1980. She is his only immediate survivor.
Virginia Culver
George Saladino had little art training but produced paintings that "were pure exuberance," said Denver artist Madeleine Dodge.
Saladino died Dec. 20 at age 81.
Dodge said she believed that Saladino's 15 years in Las Vegas and "its glitz and glamour" led him to paint with such bright colors.
"He had a tremendous palette, using colors all over the place," said Dodge, who arranged two shows for Saladino. "He painted on anything he could find, even did a painting of Lucille Ball on a TV tray."
"Looking at the paintings gives a woman enormous joy and exuberance in being a woman," she said.
Saladino started painting only 20 years ago, completely out of the blue. Friends think he took one art class.
"He was passionate and painted for the pure love of it," Dodge said.
His first painting was of a boat, and he did an occasional landscape, but mostly, it was women's faces.
He exhibited several years ago at the Catacombs Gallery in the basement of Holy Ghost Catholic Church, where he was an usher, and at a cooperative exhibit. He did more than 100 paintings, most of them 16 or 20 inches in size. He continued painting after moving to a Wheat Ridge care center.
George Saladino was born in Rock Springs, Wyo., on Feb. 27, 1928, and graduated from high school there. He often worked in his uncle's restaurant there, and when he moved to Denver, he worked at Gaetano's, a historic northwest Denver restaurant.
He married Claudette Kreiling on Feb. 28, 1980. She is his only immediate survivor.
Virginia Culver
Saladino died Dec. 20 at age 81.
Dodge said she believed that Saladino's 15 years in Las Vegas and "its glitz and glamour" led him to paint with such bright colors.
"He had a tremendous palette, using colors all over the place," said Dodge, who arranged two shows for Saladino. "He painted on anything he could find, even did a painting of Lucille Ball on a TV tray."
"Looking at the paintings gives a woman enormous joy and exuberance in being a woman," she said.
Saladino started painting only 20 years ago, completely out of the blue. Friends think he took one art class.
"He was passionate and painted for the pure love of it," Dodge said.
His first painting was of a boat, and he did an occasional landscape, but mostly, it was women's faces.
He exhibited several years ago at the Catacombs Gallery in the basement of Holy Ghost Catholic Church, where he was an usher, and at a cooperative exhibit. He did more than 100 paintings, most of them 16 or 20 inches in size. He continued painting after moving to a Wheat Ridge care center.
George Saladino was born in Rock Springs, Wyo., on Feb. 27, 1928, and graduated from high school there. He often worked in his uncle's restaurant there, and when he moved to Denver, he worked at Gaetano's, a historic northwest Denver restaurant.
He married Claudette Kreiling on Feb. 28, 1980. She is his only immediate survivor.
Virginia Culver
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