(1909-1974)
Frank Romanelli was a member of the Buffalo Print Club, but was better known as a leading Works Progress Administration (WPA) sculptor and painter. He did not make many prints, but was among a group of Buffalo artists supported by the WPA to create public works of art. With William Rowe, he painted murals at the Marine Hospital (which became the SUNY at Buffalo Medical School Extensions). In 1940, for the Homer Post Office in Cortland County, New York, he painted a section of the oil on canvas mural titled Albany Street Bridge; it measured 5'2" by 12 feet. Romanelli, Harold Ambellan, and perhaps other WPA sculptors created cast concrete and stone sculptures and reliefs of bison, elk, lions, bears alligators, birds, and other animals at the Buffalo Zoological Gardens around 1940-41. He received a cash prize for the oil painting, Golden Girl, at The Fifth Annual Exhibition of The Work of Buffalo and Western New York Artists in the then-named Albright Art Gallery in 1938. Romanelli was also among a dozen Buffalo artists to be represented at the 1939 World's Fair held n Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in Queens, New York City, where he showed a sculpture. He died in FLorida in 1974.