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Ralph Garafola  (born Ralph W. Garafola, December 4, 1929, Brooklyn, NY) is an American painter currently living in Warren Twp, New Jersey and Florida.

Background
Ralph Garafola was raised in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, He started drawing and painting as a young boy. Garafola first use of an airbrush was as a draftsman. He became a New Jersey's photo retoucher. Garafola studied at the Art Students League of New York for seven years. He served as class monitor for Frank J. Reilly, an instructor at the League and Commissioner of Art for New York City.

Garafola worked as a commercial illustrator/photo retoucher and fine artist for over 65 years, with oil and watercolor paintings of portraits, landscapes, seascapes, animals/pets and still life. Garafola painted throughout the years and started teaching in his 70's; which he continues to do today in Florida at the Art Center Sarasota and Art by the Bay Sarasota. He also taught at the Ringling College of Art and Design and the Art Center Manatee. In New Jersey he taught at the duCret School of Art. As of 2016, Garafola at 86, paints and teaches a few days a week when he is at his Florida residence and the other months of the year he is in New Jersey. His teaching style is like Reilly in that he teaches the method and encourages his students to paint the style of their choice, not his style of contemporary realism.

Life and work
A few years ago, when? Garafola wrote the book Reilly intended to write but never did "Frank J. Reilly The Elements of Painting". He used his class notes which he kept all these years to write this book. The book is like a text book. He finally self-published it a few years ago. when? Garafola became an artist using the method he learned from Reilly he says “I never had a reason to change it”. This book presents the Munsell Color System along with the principles and concepts of craftsmanship involved in the graphic arts. Art Atelier ref just quotes him

Garafola contributed to Warren Twp. by designing and directing the building of the 911 Memorial which stands in front of the Municipal building.

Portraits
Write in prose, and don't list everything he's ever painted, just the most important
 * Henry Flagler, University Park, FL
 * Christiana & Danielle, Nissequque, NY
 * Charles McDowell Sr., former law professor, hanging in Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA

Jackie LeClaire, Ringling Bros. Clown, Sarasota, FL

Lora Codington, Warren Township Philanthropist and Descendant of an American Revolutionary War Family, hanging in the Warren Public Library, Warren, NJ

Major General Joseph Warren hanging in the Warren Township’s courtroom, Warren, NJ

Nicholas Vomero, Fencing Champion (life-size portrait), Centerport, NY

[Ralph Garafola], Self Portrait, Warren, NJ

Tiffany & Chelsea Clarke, Cape Cod, MA

Victor DiLeo], CEO DiLeo Realty, Piscataway, NJ

William & Mildred Garafola, New York

Awards
Don't list everything he's ever painted, just the most important. Many of these are very local and trivial Society of Portrait Artists Foundation, the International Portrait Arts Festival held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, Certificate of Excellence, Atsuko Kubota (Japanese Girl)

Mountain Art Show, Bernardsville, NJ,Award of Excellence, Atsuko Kubota (Japanese Girl)

Somerset Art Association (The Center For Contemporary Art) ], Somerset, NJ, Best in Show, Atsuko Kubota (Japanese Girl)

Somerset Art Association, Somerset, NJ, Grumbacher Gold Medallion Award, Atsuko Kubota (Japanese Girl)

Anna Maria Art League Gallery, Anna Maria Island, FL, 1st Place, Flamingo Dancer

New Jersey Center for Visual Arts], Summit, NJ, Marion Anderson Memorial Award for Portraiture, Carolann

New Jersey Center of Visual Arts, Summit, NJ, Award of Excellence, Bill, Guitar Player

Sarasota Portrait Society, Sarasota, FL, 1st Place, Ralph Garafola, Self Portrait

Watchung Arts Center, Watchung, NJ, Award of Excellence, Bobby and his dog Butchie

Art Center of Manatee, Manatee, FL

1st Place, Carnevale de Venezia

1st Place, Twelve Meter Racing

2nd Place, The Golden Ballet Shoes

Art & Frame, Sarasota, FL, 1st Place, Bridge Street Pier at Sunrise

Les Malamut Gallery, Union, NJ, Honorable Mention, Venice Gondola

Longboat Key Center for the Arts (Div. of Ringling College), Longboat Key, FL 1st Place, Tourist in the Ringling Museum

1st Place, Kubuki Courtesan

1st Place, Memories of a Geisha

Park Avenue Club, Florham Park, NJ], 2nd Place, Au Lapin Agile (Dancing Rabbit) Cabaret, Montmartre, France

Ridgewood Art Institute, Ridgewood, NJ, Gamblin "Artists Oil Color" Award, Waterloo Village

Sarasota Art Center, Sarasota, FL, 1st Place, Painting on The Left Bank, Paris

Westfield Art Association, Westfield, NJ Award of Excellence, The Clammer

Award of Excellence, Brown's Head Light 

Art Directors Club of New Jersey, Kearny, NJ, Gold Medal, Special Honor-Service Award, RalphGarafola