A famous New York City painter missing since Saturday was found alive and well Monday police said
Joseph stefanelli,90,one of the last surviving members nof the New York school of Abstrsct Expressionism,disappeared Saturday at New York University Medical Center on Frist Ave.in Midtown.
The renowed painter may have been visiting his wife at the hospital,police said
He was found Monday afternoon at 44th St.and 10th Ave.in Manhattan and taken to St.
Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital for observation,police said.
Born in philadelphia,Stefanelli served as a combat artist during World War II.
He settled in New York City in the late 1940s as Abstract Expressionism was emerging as the pre-eminent style of painting.
Stefanelli,who for years painted out of a studio on the Lower East side,has won numerous awards for his work.