Gloria Braggiotti Etting [SEP] date of birth
Gloria Braggiotti Etting
Gloria Braggiotti Etting (1909 – 3 September 2003) was a dancer, newspaper columnist, photographer, and author. Her brother was composer Mario Braggiotti and her husband was artist Emlen Etting.
Early life.
Gloria Braggiotti was born in Florence, Italy, the youngest of eight children. Her father was an Italian tenor, born in Smyrna; her mother was an American mezzo-soprano from Boston. When her mother died in 1919, her father moved the family to Boston to be near her
artist should work whether they felt the call of the muse or not.
Etting taught at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Philadelphia College of Art, Temple University's Tyler School of Art, and Florida Southern College.
Etting married Gloria Braggiotti in 1938. Gloria was a fixture of Main Line society in her own right. She was a great cook and hostess who can be credited to elevating the modern salon to its highest expression. (see Gloria Braggiotti Etting).
Etting's sculpture Phoenix Rising was installed