popular annual event in Buffalo. In 1979, Sisti made a major gift to the Burchfield-Penney Art Center, including 26 paintings and drawings by Charles E. Burchfield as well as 32 of his own works. In 1981, the City of Buffalo named a park in the Allentown area in his honor. Tony Sisti Park is located near the intersection of Franklin Street and North Street. Sisti died in Buffalo on 15 December 1983. More than twenty-five years later, he is still remembered in Buffalo as a painter, art collector, and patron of the arts. In 2009, when the Burchfield-Penney Art Center opened its new museum on the campus of Buffalo State College, one of the main floor galleries was named after Sisti. Art work Tony Sisti was a painter, muralist, and drawing specialist. He was a classically trained artist, who studied at the Albright Art School in Buffalo and at Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Florence. He later became an art instructor at the Art Institute of Buffalo and then the New York School of Applied Design for Women in New York City. He was active as a professional painter from the mid-1920s until his death in 1983. Sisti was known for his bold use of color and fluid action figures. He was an accomplished landscape painter, but he was especially noted for his paintings of boxing and other action scenes. His portrait of heavy weight contender Phil Muscato, titled The Boxer, won the Gold Medal at the 1953 Buffalo Society of Artists exhibition. He was also well known as a formal portrait painter. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, New York Governor Alfred E. Smith, and Fiat Motor Company president Giovanni Agnelli were among the notable individuals who had portraits painted by Sisti. He also painter official portraits of at least one Buffalo mayor and a number of other Buffalo city officials. Sisti’s works have been exhibited in major museums including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the Burchfield-Penney Art Center in Buffalo. The Burchfield-Penney Art Center also displays a number of Sisti’s paintings in its permanent collection. References External links AskART Burchfield-Penney Art Center 1901 births 1983 deaths American draughtsmen American muralists 20th-century American painters American male painters Artists from New York (state) 20th-century American male artists