The Assantes moved to Mountainville that year, and their third child was born in 1959.Īrmand was an often celebrated artist both in New York and in the Hudson Valley, exhibiting most recently at the Karpeles Gallery in Newburgh. of Star Expansion Industries in Mountainville, New York, invited Armand to become the Senior Advertising Executive for his company. The young couple lived in Washington Heights with their first two children until 1957, when Ralph Ogden, Sr. While there, he made many beautiful drawings of the people living in the rural villages.Īfter the war he married Katharine Healy, a pianist and music teacher, on June 28, 1947. Before leaving the Marines at the war’s end, Armand was assigned to Tsing Tao, China where he worked as a telephone lineman for the base. In March 1945, in Iwo Jima, a telephone pole crushed his foot and he was diverted to the Island of Le Jima (Le Shima) while his unit went on to endure numerous combat deaths during the battle of Okinawa, including the noted war correspondent, Ernie Pyle. In 1942, Armand joined the United States Marine Corps and throughout World War II was with the First Infantry Division, Pacific Theater. By his teens he had caught the attention of artists such as Norman Rockwell and the German post-impressionist painter, Hubert Landau, who became his teacher and mentor. He was, in his youth, a prodigious artist who excelled masterfully in drawing, painting and draftsmanship. announces his passing on August 25, 2017.īorn to Elizabeth di Giovanni and Aniello Armand on Augin Rye, New York, Armand was raised in Washington Heights, New York with his large Italian family. It is with deep sadness that the family of Armand Anthony Assante, Sr.

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