Joseph DiGiorgio, 69, landscape painter

[T.E. Goodell]

NEW YORK (AP) - Joseph DiGiorgio, a painter best known for his renderings of
American landscapes, died May 26. He was 69.

DiGiorgio attempted to modernize 19th-century U.S. landscape painting, using
rich colors and small brush strokes. He often worked in series, painting
multiple images of subjects such as the Hudson River or the Grand Canyon.

He painted Brooklyn's Prospect Park 200 times, 50 for each season. All the
works were shown at the Prichard Art Gallery at the University Museum in
Moscow, Idaho, in 1995.

His most recent New York show, in March at the Kouros Gallery in Manhattan,
featured the ``New York at Night'' series of paintings.

DiGiorgio studied art in the 1950s at the Cooper Union and in Hans Hoffman's
classes in Provincetown, Mass.